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HINSDALE GENEALOGY 



DESCENDANTS 

OF 

ROBERT HINSDALE 

OF 

DEDHAM, MEDFIELD, HADLEY 
AND DEERFIELD 

WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE FRENCH FAMILY OF 

DE HINNISDAL 

COMPILED FROM 

THE NOTES OF HONORABLE SANFORD C. HINSDALE, 

OF DENVER, COLORADO 
BY THE LATE 

HERBERT CORNELIUS ANDREWS 

HERALDIST AND GENEALOGIST 



EDITED BY 

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Boast not these titles of your ancestors, 

Brave youths; they're their possessions, none of yours; 

When your own virtues, equal'd have their names, 

'Tivill be hxd fair to lean upon their fames ; 

For they are strong supporters ; hut till then 

The greatest are hut growing gentlemen. 

It is a wretched thing to trust to reeds. 

Which all men do, that urge not their own deeds. 

Up to their ancestors ; the river's side, 

By ivhich you're planted, shows your fruit shall hide; 

Hang all your rooms with one large pedigree; 

'Tis virtue alone is true nobility ; 

Which virtue from your father, ripe, will fall ; 

Study illustrious him, and you have all. 

— Ben Jonson. 



People ivill not look forward to posterity, who never 
look backward to their ancestors. 

— Edmund Burke. 



EDITOR'S PREFACE. 



For many years the Hon. Sanford C. Hinsdale of Denver, 
Colo., was engaged in collecting notes relating to all persons of 
the Hinsdale name in America, as well as those who, having 
other names, were descendants of Robert Hinsdale, the first 
ancestor in this country, but realizing that he could not bring 
the matter to publication, he turned over all his data to the 
late Herbert C. Andrews, himself a descendant of Robert Hins- 
dale, and who had adopted genealogical research as his profession. 

At the untimely death of Mr. Andrews in the spring of 
1905, the compilation had been practically completed, and his 
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Hinsdale Andrews, of Lombard, 
111., feeling that it devolved upon them, in memory of their son 
and in fulfillment of what they knew to be his earnest desire, to 
publish the work, have done so. 

Thanks are due to all who have in any way aided in the 
compilation of the work, but particular mention should be made 
of the assistance rendered by Mrs. Mary E. Truax, of Craw- 
fordsville, Ind., and the late Samuel Burritt Hinsdale, of 
Woodbridge, N. J. 

To the editor has fallen the task of revision, preparation 
for the press, and issuance in book form. 

ALFRED L. HOLMAN, 

2036 Indiana Avenue 
Chicago, 111., 1906. 



INTRODUCTION. 



The following pages have been written that the records of 

an old, and not unworthy, family may, for a time at least, be 

preserved from oblivion. Family pride is inherent in every 

self-respecting human being. We have standards of excellence 

to which we never attain. But if some of our own blood seem 

to have reached the high ideals which we have set for ourselves, 

we should be all the more encouraged to press forward. Not 

servile imitation, but a healthy emulation of noble traits, sets 

its seal on worthy character. Some names will here be found 

which have resounded far. Of others it may be said, 

" Along the cool sequester'd vale of life 
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way." 

But they are therefore not less brave, not less noble, not less 

self-sacrificing that the noisy world has not heard of them. 

Perhaps their names alone appear in this volume. But those 

who are near of kin and knew their lives will call their virtues to 

remembrance. 

No claim is made that the following pages are free from errors. 
All that can be said is that, so far as possible, the book aims to 
present a faithful record. Wherein it fails the fault is not 
always to be imputed to the compiler, who may have been mis- 
led by untrustworthy information. Any corrections or additions 
from any source will be highly appreciated, as in the event of 
another edition, they will be of great value. We believe that 
almost every person in this country, of the Hinsdale name, 
may here be able to trace his ancestral line back to Robert of 
Dedham. We cannot, in all cases, furnish the enquirer a 
carriage, but if we can set up mile-posts to lead him to his 
journey's end, we feel that our labor will not have been in vain. 

We have added an account of the French or Walloon family, 
of noble blood, but the links of alliance with this family, if 
such exist, have not been traced. If any of the family, possessed 
of means and leisure, should desire to supply these connecting 
links, it is our belief that this task can be accomplished without 



X INTRODUCTION 

any insuperable difficulty. We do not feel called upon to ally 
ourselves with medieval nobility of the old world. Nobility of 
the American type is good enough for us. However, no criti- 
cism is here meant of those who hold different views. We, as 
a family, have fought and shed our heart' s blood for our present 
liberty — a liberty which we, with mighty efforts, have helped to 
create, which arose from amidst alarms and garments rolled 
in blood, and which is loved as much for what it has cost as for 
what is hoped for it. This we hold dear — dearer far than all 
titles which kings can bestow. 

The history of every man is a history of tendencies. This 
simply means, that, other things being equal, he will conduct 
his life along the lines which for him are the lines of least 
resistance. These tendencies arise from heredity, and we can 
see ourselves in the summed up traits, temperaments and 
characters of our ancestors. But only as through a glass darkly. 
For differences of environment and education wield a mighty, 
and oftentimes a controlling influence. Genealogy, therefore, 
is a study of ourselves. It is a following out of the old 
Delphic Oracle — "Know thyself.'"' The present work is 
tentative. It is an attempt to break up a field which has 
lain so long fallow. It is to be fondly hoped that others 
with greater means and leisure may carry on the work here 
begun, and see the yellowing harvest. 

S. C. H. 



HINSDALE 



HINSDALE. 

ORIGIN OF THE NAME AND FAMILY.— The family of 
Hinsdale had its origin in the district of Loos, in the country of 
Liege, now in Belgium, where it was settled as early as the end of 
the twelfth century. This district was in ancient times in Brabant, 
which was a part of France. While the family was doubtless origi- 
nally French it made alUances with Dutch and German families 
situated in the Low Lands, and the name is as much Dutch as 
French in its derivation. " Dal " or " Dale " is the French for a 
valley or vale, and corresponds to the English " Dale," the Dutch 
" Dael," and the German " Thai." The surname was therefore 
taken from a locality. It is found spelled abroad Hinisdal, Hinis- 
dael, Henisdael, Henisdal, Hinesdale, Henesdale, Hinisdale, Hinnis- 
dale, Hynsdale, Hinsdael, and Hinnisdal. The last spelling is the 
one most common in France. In addition we find the name in 
England, Hensdell, Endesdale, and Ensdale; while Robert Hinsdale 
the emigrant rendered it variously as Hinsdell, Hensdell, Hinsdall, 
etc. The various spellings of the name have no bearing on the 
origin of the family. The clerks and recorders wrote it according 
to their own fancy, mostly by sound, while frequently a member 
of the family wrote his own name in several ways — especially true 
of Robert, the emigrant, and his immediate posterity. The " h " is 
only a breathing, and was frequently omitted in the old English 
records, where we find Ensdale and Endesdale. Whatever the 
spelling, we have abundant evidence that all of the name are de- 
scended from the ancient French family, an account of the elder 
branches of which appears further on. The name is not found in 
England earlier than the sixteenth century, and we have only a few 
references to it then. It is distinctively continental in its deriva- 
tion. Neither Lower's " Patronymica Britannica " nor Bardsley's 
" English Surnames" mention it, and an examination of works on 
English county families, landed gentry, nobihty and peerage has 
failed to reveal such a family. So we may reasonably conclude that 
we cannot look to England for the seat of the remote ancestors of 
the emigrant Robert Hinsdale. We have evidences, however, that 

11 



12 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

he came from England, probably from the vicinity of London or 
County Essex. Several of the settlers of Dedham, Mass., came from 
Dedham, County Essex, and he may have been among the number. 
In 1663, he and his wife conveyed lands in Medfield, Mass., to Jere- 
miah Tauke, citizen and clothworker of London as secm*ity for the 
payment of certain sums. We deduce from the conveyance that 
they had known Tauke before coming to America. Fiu'thermore, the 
prominent part Robert Hinsdale took from the first in the civil, 
military and church affairs of the Dedham settlement would cer- 
tainly indicate that he had become a member of the band which 
settled the place, before it left England. We know also from his lead- 
ing station in the colony that he must have occupied a similar position 
in the old world. Of the various emigrants treated of in this manu- 
script it will be seen that where the families have been traced into 
England, those settlers who occupied as high a place as did Rob- 
bert Hinsdale were of families of the higher middle class in England 
and invariably derived from ancient stock. It is strange, therefore, 
that no early mention of the name Hinsdale appears in England. 
We cannot suppose that Robert Hinsdale's ancestors were of the 
lowest peasant class and too insignificant for record. Therefore the 
absence of such record can be accounted for only by the supposition 
that his immediate ancestors came to England from some other 
country, most probably France or the Low Countries; for there 
was the seat of the Hinsdale family, and in these localities the name 
was common. Furthermore, France had been torn up during the 
latter half of the sixteenth century and from twenty to fifty years 
before the birth of the emigrant Robert Hinsdale, by the persecutions 
of the Huguenots. Many of this sect fled to England for protection. 
The Pettibones and Bissells, mentioned elsewhere in this work, 
were among these Huguenot families, and there w^ere many others 
who settled in Massachusetts and Connecticut. The town of New 
Rochelle, N. Y., was settled entirely by refugees from Rochelle, 
France, and the south is filled with descendants of the ancient 
Huguenots, some of the families emigrating first to England and 
later to America, and others coming here direct. That Robert 
Hinsdale's ancestors were among the Huguenots who fled from 
France to England after the massacre of St. Bartholomew seems 
quite possible. It is evident that they were descendants of the 
ancient French family, and their reason for leaving their native 
country was probably one of religion. It will be noticed that the 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 13 

history of the French Hinsdale Family deals only with the lines of 
the eldest sons, no mention being made of the posterity in the younger 
branches. Thus there are numerous possibilities for Robert Hins- 
dale's ancestors to have come into the pedigree of this ancient 
family. The most important evidence we have for such a deduction 
is that Robert appears as a family name in the earliest branch of 
the Hinsdale family. The founder of the line was a Robertus 
DE HiNNisDAL living in 1174, and no less than five of his immediate 
descendants bore the name of Robert prior to 1600. Robert is a 
French baptismal name and is found comparatively seldom in 
England in the 16th and 17th centuries. The fact that our emigrant 
ancestor bore it, and that it occurs in nearly every family of the 
French Hinnisdals for several generations before the time he was 
born, is a striking confirmation of our supposition that Robert 
Hinsdale was of French origin, and descended from the founder of 
the family in the twelfth century. There are several places in the 
pedigree where his branch could have originated. No mention is 
made of the younger sons of Robertus de Hinnisdal, 1174, only 
" GiLLES his oldest son." Similarly no mention is made of any of 
the children of this Gilles except his son Herman. Herman's second 
son GuiLLAUME may have had descendants, as might Henri de 
Hinnisdal, son of the second Herman. Later we come to a Ro- 
bert who was living in 1472 and died before 1488, and his nephew, 
another Robert, living in 1488. It is probable that one or both of 
these Roberts left descendants, and our emigrant ancestor may 
have derived his pedigree from one of them or else from one of their 
more remote relatives named above. It is to be regretted that the 
" Archives of the French Nobility " do not contain a more com- 
plete pedigree on the younger branches. This is accounted for by 
the fact that the estates and titles passed to the eldest son from 
generation to generation. Unless a younger son contracted an 
alliance with an heiress, or inherited part of the estates from a 
maternal ancestor, his posterity was not included in the peerages, 
as they would not rank among the nobility. What Macaulay says 
of the aristocracy of England applies equally to that of France: 
"It was constantly receiving members from the people, and con- 
stantly sending down members to mingle with the people. Any 
gentleman might become a peer. The younger son of a peer was 
but a gentleman." To sum up our argument we know that the 
name of Hinsdale, however spelt, is of French origin, and we think 



14 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

that all of the name are descended from the ancient noble family 
settled in the Low Lands. Our emigrant ancestor bore a Christian 
name very common in the early branches of the French family. 
The surname is not found in England more than fifty years previous 
to his time, nor the Christian name very extensively. This points 
conclusively to his French origin. In addition we have the Hu- 
guenot persecutions and unsettled state of society in France as a 
motive for the emigration of his immediate ancestors to England, 
We may assume, therefore, until we have positive evidence to the 
contrary, that he came from a younger branch of the ancient and 
noble Hinnisdal family, settled in the Low Lands as early as the 
twelfth centiu"y ; that this younger branch of the family was of the 
middle class; that one of the descendants was induced to leave 
France, probably on accoimt of religious persecutions, diuing the 
latter part of the sixteenth century; that he settled in England 
probably in County Essex, or in the vicinity of London; that his de- 
scendant bearing the ancient family name of Robert, inspired by 
the feeling of unrest and love of religious liberty which had impelled 
his Huguenot ancestor to flee from the Continent, joined the Puritan 
exodus from England, came to Massachusetts, there helped in 
founding the colony, and became the ancestor of all of the name of 
Hinsdale in the United States. 

Regarding the Coat of Arms of the family, our right to bear it 
is unquestioned in view of the evidences above. There is but one 
Hinsdale coat of arms on record, that granted to the earliest branch 
of the family, and the description of which heads the following 
article. Had it been granted to some peer contemporaneous with 
our emigrant ancestor our right could be questioned, but there is 
no doubt that our Robert was directly descended from that Knight 
of the twelfth century who first assumed the escutcheon. The de- 
scription of the arms is foimd in the French armoiu-ies and peerages, 
and has been verified as that to which the ancient family of "de 
Hinnisdal" was entitled. In support of the right of the American 
family of Hinsdale to use these Arms we quote from F. Schuyler 
Mathews' " Writing Table of the Twentieth Century " : " It does not 
matter in the least whether the London College of Arms recognizes 
his right to the relic or not. One thing he knows and rejoices in, 
the strange device he beholds is the same as that which commanded 
the respect and reverence of his ancestors. He naturally respects 
it also, and is not disposed to biu-y it because it happens to repre- 
sent an ancient and decayed aristocracy." 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 15 



DE HINNISDAL. 

Counts of Hinnisdal and of the Holy Roman Empire ; Viscounts 
and Barons of Fumal; Lords, before the French Revolution of 1789, 
in the Low Lands, of Heme, Kerckum, Danicken, Gratzen, Hercken, 
Stralen, Zulebeke, Monstroul, Melin, Betho, Oleve, Grand Assch, 
Crainheim, Saint-Pierre-Woluwe, Tonglaer, etc., and in France, of 
Ferfay, Couchy-a-la-Tour, Omes, Monchy - Cayours, Montagne, 
Moncheaux, etc. 

COAT OF ARMS. 
Armes: De sable, au chef d'argent, charge de trois merles de 
sable.* 

Couronne de Comte. 
Supports: Deux levriers. 
Devise: Moderata durant. 

The house of de Hinnisdalf had its origin in the district of Loos, 
in the country of Liege. Its founders, feudatories and chiefs, were 
defenders of the Imperial Abbey of Saint-Tron, and figured among 
the nobility at about the end of the twelfth century. The dis- 
tinction which their descendants acquired, and their possessions 
and family alliances, had rendered the name known throughout 
those countries for a long time before the period at which it made 
itself known in France by reason of its honorable services in be- 
half of that country. Moreover, the most ancient references found 
in the country of Liege when searches were made in order to estab- 
lish court privileges, in compliance with the statute, never mention 
the name except by distinguishing it by the title of " Very noble 
and very ancient family of de Hinnisdal." 

*In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, by reason of the alliance by 
marriage between Herman III. de Hinnisdal with Jeanne de Sepper, sev- 
eral generations superimposed the escutcheon of de Hinnisdal on that 
of de Sepper without any reason known therefor. Several authors have 
engraved and described this simple addition as if it were a part of the coat 
of arms of de Hinnisdal. This is an error which we think proper to have 
corrected here. 

fThe name of de Hinnisdal is written in difi"erent ways in the charters 
and chronicles, to-wit: Hinisdal, Hinisdael, Henisdael, Henisdal, Hinesdal, 
Henesdale, Hinisdale, Hinnisdale, Hynsdael, Hinsdael, and Hinnisdal. This 
last spelling is the one we have followed in all branches of this article on 
the Continental family. 



16 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Many French and Brabantine authors have spoken of this family, 
but all in a manner have been, if not inexact, at least very incom- 
plete. The labor which we have given to the question will not add 
any weight to the opinion which those authors had of their anti- 
quity, but it fills up the numerous omissions which their works 
leave. 

GAUTIER DE HINNISDAL (Walter de Hinnisdal), born 
about the beginning of the twelfth century, is known through a 
charter, or letters patent, dated about 1170, by which Philippe 
d' Alsace, Count of Flanders, confirmed a gift or donation made to 
the church of Liege by the said Gautier de Hinnisdal and Marie his 
wife, of twenty measures of grain to be taken from the land of Vivier ; 
the donation was afterwards indorsed or approved by Robert, the 
son of Gautier de Hinnisdal, and Marguerite his wife. (The origi- 
nal parchment still exists in the cabinet or library of the late M. 
d'Hozier, and is sealed with the seal of the Count of Flanders in 
yellow wax, hanging with a double pendant.) 

ROBERTUS DE HENISDAL (Robert de Hinnisdal), I^ight, 
probably brother of Gautier, authorized with Gilles, his oldest son, 
by charter in the month of May 1174, a donation made to the chiu-ch 
of Liege on account of Aales (Alix), the wife of the aforementioned 
Robert, of the revenue to be derived from thirty pounds to be taken 
after his death, from the estate of Roseem, for the repose of his 
soul and to the blessed memory of Robert of Fayel, his father. The 
original parchment of this act is preserved in the same collection and 
sealed with the seals of Robert and Aales. Nothing but a fragment 
remains of that of Robert. 

GILLES DE HINNISDAL (Gilbert de Hinnisdal), Knight, 
with castle at Fumal, the first of the name, born about the middle 
of the twelfth century, is the head of the descendants of this family, 
according to family titles and historians. The shield with his coat 
of arms was placed in the Crusader's HaU in the Museum at Ver- 
sailles, as having taken part under the Count of Flanders in the 
Expedition of King Philippe- Auguste to Syria in 1190. The doc- 
ument which establishes this fact consists of the letters patent 
by which this monarch as suzerain and testamentary executor of 
Phihppe d' Alsace, Count of Flanders (who died of the pestilence 
at the siege of Acre, June 1, 1191), substituted his guaranty to that 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 17 

given by the aforesaid Count, for a loan of 700 silver marks made 
to Genoese merchants by several of his chevaliers, to-wit: Guill- 
aume (William) de Linden, Arnoul d'Estrees, Gautier de Ligne, 
Ricker de Wasquchol, Hugues de Lezennes, Gilles de Hinnisdal, 
Baudouin de Hennin, Roger de Landas and Gerard de Mude. The 
original parchment of these letters patent, dated " In camp, at 
Acre," in 1191, and sealed in green wax with the seal of Philippe- 
Auguste, exists today in the archives of the Prince de Ligne. 

This is the tenor of the document (in Latin) : "In the name 
of the Holy and undivided Trinity. Amen. Philipus, by the 
grace of God, King of the Franks: Let all those present know and 
those in the future hereafter to come, that as feudal officials and 
as executors of the last will of our once most dear Philippe, Count 
of Flanders. 

(Then follows a page of Latin in the legal verbiage of that day, 
setting forth the transaction with the thanks of the King). 

Gilles de Hinnisdal is mentioned in 1234, as being the father 
of Herman, who follows: (Butken's Supplement aux trophees de 
Brabant, tome I. livre 8, p. 443). 

HERMAN DE HINNISDAL, the first of the name. Knight; 
still living in 1234. He married Catherine de Heurne, a lady 
of Heurne-Saint-Pierre, in the country or castlery of Audenard. 
He left two sons: 

1. DANIEL, the first of the name, who succeeded him, 

2. GUILLAUME DE HINNISDAL, who died in 1295. 

DANIEL DE HINNISDAL, the first of the name. Knight ban- 
neret. Lord of Heurne, married Mechtilde de Sassembrouck.* 
He died on Saint Elizabeth's day, Nov. 19, 1298, and was buried 
in the church of Heurne-Saint-Pierre, near Wechmael, where his 
tomb was still to be seen in 1708.t He is represented on the 

*Henricourt, author of a work entitled " Miroir des Nobles de Hasbaye," 
written between 1353 and 1400, says on page 247, that the house of 
Sassembrouck was formerly so powerful that it was able to make war against 
the Counts de Loos and even ventured to demand from them an appeal to 
arms. 

fThis fact has been verified by the bailififs of Namur and certified to 
in letters of M. de Cratiembagh, Marshal and Lieutenant of his Excellency, 
Count de Meghen, the Governor General and Chief Bailiff of the towns, 
countries and county of Namur, on March 17, 1667, and certified to 
Philippe-Herman de Hinnisdal. 



18 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

tomb as being completely armed and clothed in a coat of mail. 
On each side of his head is a banner and on his left side is a great 
shield or buckler, showing a silver field bearing three black ravens. J 
He had sons: 

WATHIEU DE HINNISDAL (Walter de Hinnisdal), the first 
of the name, Knight and Lord of Heurne in 1300, died in the month 
of Jime, 1353, according to a tablet in relief made by his eldest son 
in the Abbey of Saint-Tron. The registry of the fiefs of this Abbey 
sets forth that the Lord Wathieu de Hinnisdal, Knight, held in 
full fief a house with many other possessions near Kerckum, by 
reason of which fief he held four vassals. Wathieu is also recog- 
nized as the son of Daniel de Hinnisdal, I^ight, and of the Lady 
Mechtilde de Sassembrouck, in the record of Reminiscere, 1354. 
He married Marguerite de Steenhuy,* by whom he had three 
sons. (Supplement aux trophees de Brabant pp. 443, 444, where 
the genealogical tablet or tree of the house of Hinnisdal will be 
found.) 

GILLES DE HINNISDAL, I^ight. It wUl be seen by the 
two registers of the fiefs of the Abbey of Saint-Tron, quoted in 
that record at E. A. fol. 84, S. fol. 303, that after the death of his 
father, he took back again the fief of the afore-mentioned Abbey, 
the fief of Kerckum, on June 10, 1353, in the presence of Arnoul 
de Dyck, Kjiight, and Wauthier de Gorseme, Lambert Schouteek, 
Daniel de Zerckingen, etc., vassals of the Abbey of Saint-Tron; 
and that with the consent of the Abbot and in the presence of 
those same vassals transferred half of the said fief to Herman de 
Hinnisdal, his brother. (Copy of deed delivered Nov. 9, 1785, 



JThe title here indicated in this document has been certified to by 
two certificates of the King of Arms of the Emperor and provincial heralds 
of the district of Bas-Rhin, under date of Oct. 17, 1716 and 1718, and of 
January, 1726. 

*This was a house of ancient knighthood which took its name from a castle 
situated in the district d'Alost and was allied to the houses of Bethune, 
de Blondel-Pamele, de Snoy, de Croix, and de Gottignies. The lands of the 
Steenhuys bear the title of a principality. (Bushing). Marguerite, the 
Princess of Steenhuys, was heiress of the elder branch of this house and 
married about the year 1435, Jean de Bruges, Lord of la Gruthuse. (Histoire 
des Grands Officiers de la Couronne, t. II. p. 767.) 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 19 

under seal of the feudal court of said Abbey. We suppose 1785 
refers to the time when court privileges were established.) On 
May 23, 1356, Gilles de Hinnisdal transferred the other half of the 
fief of Kerckum to his niece Emilie, a daughter of the deceased 
Wathieu de Hinnisdal, and she received the investiture in the 
presence of Gerard van den Broeck, her guardian or administrator. 
(Copy of deed delivered Nov. 11, 1785, mider the seal of the feudal 
court of said Abbey.) Gilles died without issue. 

WATHIEU DE HINNISDAL, Knight, was substituted by the 
Abbot of Saint-Tron in 1355; he died before May 23, 1356. He 
had married Emilie de Guighowen (Supplement aux trophees 
de Brabant, p. 443), who afterwards married Gerard van den 
Broeck.f She had, by her first husband, two children: 

1. HERMAN DE HINNISDAL, who died in his youth before the 
year 1356. 

2. EMILIE DE HINNISDAL, who transferred to her uncle Herman 
on May 23, 1356, half of the fief of Kerckum, which her other 
uncle, Gilles de Hinnisdal, had presented to her on the same day. 

HERMAN DE HINNISDAL, second of the name, Kjiight and 
Lord of Kerckum, received both halves of this fief in 1353 and 
1356 by donation of his brother Gilles and his niece Emilie. On 
May 23, 1356, Herman was invested with the title to both sections 
of Kerckum from the Abbey of Saint-Tron and declared his obli- 
gation that he owed to the Monastery two fiefs by reason of the 
two parts of the fief which had formerly consisted of but one. This 
he declared in the presence of Gheymard de Specule, his guar- 
dian or administrator, and was to account for both of these fiefalty 
rights which had heretofore been single. (Copy of paper deliv- 
ered Nov. 11, 1785.) Herman was entrusted by Louis II. of Marie, 
Count of Flanders, with a mission to the Duke of Normandy, sub- 
sequently Charles V. of France. This latter Prince in letters dated 
at Hesdin, Sept. 27, 1363, ordered his treasurer, Aymar Bour- 
gaise, to allow a credit from his treasury of the sum of 200 francs 
in gold: "Paid to our very dear and well beloved Messire Herman 



tThe titles mentioned in this document are referred to in extracts to be 
found in a document dated June 14, 1773, among the deeds and documents 
contained in the archives of the Abbey of Saint-Tron, referring to the 
family of the Hinnisdals. 



20 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

de Hinnisdal, Kjiight, to whom we have made this gift because of 
the journey which he has taken to us at the command of our very- 
dear and beloved cousin Count of Flanders." (The original parch- 
ment is found in the cabinet of M. d'Hozier.) Herman IL was 
still living on April 9, 1373. At that time, Gheymard de Specule 
being dead, Herman de Hinnisdal appointed in his place Eustache 
de Misen as administrator of his fiefs. (Registre E. A, des fiefs 
de Saint-Tron, fol. 350. C.) Herman married a lady of the noble 
house of GuiGHOWEN, according to the records of the Council of 
Namur, on March 17, 1367. From the records of the time, we judge 
that she must have been a sister of Emilie, who was the wife of 
Wathieu de Hinnisdal. Herman left two sons: 

1. HERMAN III. description of whom follows. 

2. HENRI DE HINNISDAL, to whom his father bequeathed one 
of the two fiefs of Kerckum according to the record of the Abbey 
of Saint-Tron. It is supposed in accordance with the date, that 
Henri de Hinnisdal had a son. Herman de Hinnisdal II. attached 
himself to Louis, Duke of Orleans, son of King Charles V. of France, 
to whom he became a vassal or liegeman, and received a pension of 
100 pounds according to an order of this Prince, dated at Paris, 
Sept. 6, 1404; being an order to Jean le Flamert, his treasurer, to 
deliver to his very dear and well beloved Messire Herman de Hinnis- 
dal, Ivnight, of the country of Flanders, the aforementioned sum 
of 100 pounds in consideration of which he had become his liegeman. 
(Copy of papers delivered Nov. 17, 1785, from Abbey Saint-Tron.) 

HERMAN DE HINNISDAL, the third of the name. Esquire, 
Knight and Lord of the fiefs of Kerckum, married Jeanne de 
Sepper, who died in 1396 and was bm-ied in the church at Kerckum. 
(A. B. Supplement aux trophees de Brabant). The escutcheon 
of his arms and that of Jeanne de Sepper, his wife, were to be seen 
in 1708, in the church at Wechmael on the tomb of Herman, their 
son. 

HERMAN DE HINNISDAL, the fovu-th of the name, Esquire 
and Lord of Kerckum, master and protector of the town of Ton- 
gree, married Catherine de Gutschoven. Both were buried 
in the choir of the parish church at Wechmael in the country of 
Loos. Their tombs bear their armorials with that of their father 
and mother and still existed in 1708; that of Herman de Hinnisdal 
records that he died March 8, 1418, and that of Catherine, that 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 21 

she died February 19, 142L They had two sons and one daugh- 
ter. 

1. HERMAN v., who succeeded. 

2. GILLES II., founder of the branch of the Lords of Otrenge, 
Heurne, etc., an account of whose family is given in its proper place. 

3. MARGUERITE DE HINNISDAL, Canoness of the Chapter at 
Munster-Bilsen. (Suppl. aux trophees de Brabant, p. 443.) 

HERMAN DE HINNISDAL, the fifth of the name. Knight 
and Lord of Kerckum, gave away through Michel Schroots, his 
attorney, half of his ownership in Kerckum to the Abbey of Saint- 
Tron, June 22, 1419. He married, in 1431, Issabelle de Rickel.* 
He is described as the Mayor or Chief Councilman of the town 
of Saint-Tronf in this deed. He made over in this act of re- 
mission, recorded in the feudal court of the Abbey of Saint- 
Tron, February 1, 1436, the two fiefs which the late Herman, his 
father, formerly possessed, and which formerly belonged to Wa- 
thieu de Hinnisdal, Knight; and the said quit deed was in the 
hands of Lord Jean de Beesde, Abbot, who was represented by 
Lambert de Werfengeys, in the presence of Laurent Hillen, Theo- 
dore de Heusden and several other fief holders. (Copy of papers 
dehvered November 17, 1735). Herman V. was still living in 
1454, and died previous to May 30, 1472. On November 20 and 
21, 1609, the officers of justice at Saint-Tron and Roos and the 
Lord of Rickel attested that Herman de Hinnisdal and Issabelle 
de Rickel were represented on a window of the church of Stewordt 
as a knight with his lady. They had two sons: 

1. HERMAN VI., of whom we speak further on. 

2. ROBERT DE HINNISDAL, who was living in 1472, and died 
before the year 1488. 

HERMAN DE HINNISDAL, sixth of the name. Lord of Kerc- 

*Bolle, Lord of Rickel and vassal of Saint-Tron, married about the year 
1380 a daughter of Raes de Haccourt, Lord of Haverson, and Osegne of 
Liege. (Miroir des nobles de Hasbaye, pp. 218, 266.) 

fThe magistracy of this town was always one of high honor in the Low 
Countries, and was held in olden times only by the most noble families. The 
Burgomasters, as the heads of the city troops during the wars, were always 
chosen from among the noble families who followed the profession of arms, 
and ordinarily those who held those professions were invested with the rank 
of Knighthood. (Voyez le Recueil heraldique des echevinset bourgmestres de 
la noble cite de Liege.) 



22 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

kum, Council and Chamberlain of Charles the Bold of France, 
Duke of Burgundy, paid homage with his brother Robert for the 
two fiefs of Kerckum by Arnold de Beringhen, Abbot of Saint- 
Tron, on May 30, 1472, in the presence of Herman de Mettecoven, 
GuiUaume de Waelhoven, Guillaume de Gutschoven and several 
other vassals of this Abbey (record of the deed dehvered Nov. 
21, 1785, under the seal of the feudal court of said Abbey). Her- 
man de Hinnisdal served under the Duke of Burgundy in the war 
which he waged against Rene II., Duke of Lorraine, leagued against 
him with King Louis XL and Emperor Frederick III. This is to 
be seen by the letters of Duke Charles, written during the siege 
of Mimes on April 14, 1475, wherein he thus expresses himself: 
"Considering that the French, our enemies, have tiu'ned the lands 
and lordships which our beloved and loyal Councilor and Cham- 
berlain, Herman de Hinnisdal holds and possesses by maternal 
inheritance in our said coimtry of Haynau, and there carry on 
many warUke expeditions, and that if they stiU be carried on, we 
make known and authorize that for this purpose we have granted, 
consented and agreed with the said Herman de Hinnisdal that 
he may raise and hold all those who have anything in fief under 
him and compel them to serve under him or under his orders dur- 
ing these troubles and wars which we may have against the king 
or as long as it shall please us." (The original is on parchment 
in the library of M. d'Hozier.) Herman VI. had married Margue- 
rite ScHROOTS, together with whom he foimded an annual mass 
in the chm-ch at Kerckum. This lady afterwards married Guill- 
aume Pollaer. By her first husband she had two sons: 

1. HERMAN VII., who succeeded. 

2. ROBERT DE HINNISDAL, who was living in 1488. 

HERMAN DE HINNISDAL, seventh of the name, Master, 
afterwards Knight, Lord of Kerckum, Chamberlain of Charles, 
Archduke of Austria, and Prince of Spain (afterwards the Emperor 
Charles V.), and Governor of Mechlin, succeeded in his youth to 
his father-in-law, Guillaume Pollaer, as husband and security for 
Marguerite Schroots and released one of the two fiefs of Kerckum 
on April 4, 1480. On March 15, 1488, the said Guillaume Pollaer, in 
the name of his wife, passed over the two fiefs of Kerckum to Her- 
man and Robert de Hinnisdal, his step-sons. (Record in Latin, 
sealed and signed.) On June 22, 1490, Herman de Hinnisdal^ 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 23 

Gentleman, made Michel Schroots his attorney to give away these 
two fiefs of Kerckum in the manner spoken of. By letters dated 
at Mechlin on April 27, 1509, the Emperor Maximilien and Charles, 
the Archduke of Austria and Prince of Spain, decreed: "In con- 
sideration of the grand, notable and loyal services which our dear 
and loyal Messire Herman de Hinnisdal, Knight, Lord of Querckum 
has rendered to us, both as a warrior and chamberlain to ourself, 
Charles, in which capacity he greatly, virtuously, and loyally ac- 
quitted himself and in many and different ways * * * -^e 
have promised and do promise by these presents to provide 
him with the condition and authority of Governor of our city of 
Mechlin as soon as it shall become vacant, and we now do give, 
bestow and accord the said state and office." (The original, signed 
by Marguerite, daughter of the Emperor Maximilien, and with 
the seal of the Emperor in red wax with double pendant, is in 
the library of M. d'Hozier). He married Elizabeth de Langhon, 
as appears by letters of Sept. 8, 1512, from the mayor's or council- 
men's record of the town of Leeuw. His name appears again in an 
act of 1519. (Supplement aux trophees de Brabant, p. 443.) 
Other letters from the Emperor Charles V., dated Brussels, on Feb. 
1, 1521, contain these words: " As our dear and loyal Knight, 
Herman de Hinnisdal, Lord of Kerckum, in order to support in 
the affairs which we have had to maintain and carry on by reason of 
the present war (the war against King Francis I.), and also to pay 
the men at arms of his following which he has been obhged on his 
own private account to spend 1000 Uvres of money in Flanders 
* * * we make known that having considered all those things 
and in consideration thereof and the pleasure and the services which 
the said Herman de Hinnisdal has done for us, we have bestowed 
and promised, and we do bestow and create and grant and promise, 
in good faith, on the word of an Emperor by these presents, that 
the said sum of 1000 livres shall be reimbursed and satisfied by our 
treasurer at Brabant in the Louvain quarter." (The original is in 
the library of M. d'Hozier.) After the death of Michel Schroots, Her- 
man de Hinnisdal had substituted for him as guardian or adminis- 
trator for half of the fiefs of Kerckum, Jean Zelis, a son of Henry 
Zelis, who gave oath of fealty on Jan. 20, 1522. He had a son 
Herman VIIL, who follows: 



24 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

HERMAN DE HINNISDAL, the eighth of the name, Knight, 
Lord of Kerckum, married Marie de Corswarem,* who became 
his widow and by act of Oct. 3, 1548, transferred the fief of Kerckum 
to Herman de Hinnisdal, her son. (Register E. D. of the fiefs of 
the Abbey of Saint-Tron, foho 224, both sides of page.) We find 
mention of them in several acts of later date, as having had the 
following issue : 

1. ROBERT, who succeeded. 

2. HERMAN IX., head of the branch of the Lords of Schabrouck 
referred to elsewhere. 

3. MARIE DE HINNISDAL, who married Guillaume de Rickel and 
afterwards Gerard de Cortonbach. 

4. ANNE DE HINNISDAL. 

ROBERT DE HINNISDAL, Gentleman, Lord of Kerckum, 
surrendered his fief in the feudal court of the Abbey of Saint-Tron 
on Jan. 11, 1568. (The deed is signed, sealed and delivered on 
Feb. 24, 1785.) His wife was Barbe de Roost (alias de Rosut), 
a lady of Danicken in the country of Fauquemont. He and his 
wife died in 1567 of the pestilence which desolated the whole coun- 
try of Liege at that time, and they were buried at Saint-Tron, in 
the cloister of the Brothers of Saint Alexis. They had four sons: 

1. HERMAN DE HINNISDAL, who died without issue. 

2. NICOLAS, the first of the name, who continued the elder branch. 

3. DANIEL DE HINNISDAL, Gentleman, Lord of Kerckum, who 
surrendered in his own name, after the death of his brother Nicolas. 
(Reg. of fiefs in the Abbey of Saint-Tron fol. 291.) On Feb. 11, 
1589, he sold part of this fief to Martin Robeyns. (Ibid: Reg. 
E. F., fol. 173; Reg. F. G. fol. 205.) On Nov. 10, 1612, Daniel 
de Hinnisdal made acknowledgment for both fiefs of Kerckum. 
He had married Judith de Baelge, who died on May 22, 1609 
He surrendered his rights in favor of Louis, his son, on March 16, 



*This house is an illustrious one in the Netherlands, and the historians 
say that it originated with the Sovereign Counts of Loos, who were the 
younger sons of the Count of Hainault. It has successively risen from 
the rank of Counts of Loos-Corswarem and of the Holy Empire, and of Dukes 
and Princes of Loos, through the Emperor Charles VI. in 1734, to final or 
greater eminence through the Empress Marie Therese in 1778. In 1803 its 
principality, known as Rheina-Walbeck, gave it a vote in the Diet of the 
Empire. The act of the Federation of the Rhine placed it under the author- 
ity of the Grand Duchy of Berg. At the present time, its possessions are 
partly under the sovereignty of Prussia, and partly under that of Hanover. 
(Nobiliaire des Pays-Bas, in 18 Louvain 1760, t. II. p. 755; Annuaire Genealo- 
gique et Historique, p. 157.) 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 25 

1619 (the original in Flemish), and died of the pestilence at 
Thiennes in Brabant, on Sept. 20, 1626. He had four sons and 
one daughter: 

1. ROBERT DE HINNISDAL, born in 1582 and died in the 
twenty-sixth year of his age on March 31, 1608. He was never 
married. 

2. LOUIS DE HINNISDAL DE KERCKUM, Gentleman, born in 
1584. He acknowledged to the Abbey of Saint-Tron, on June 
20, 1619, for the titles which had been ceded to him by his 
father. He obtained a confirmation of an order from the 
King on Oct. 13, 1637, from the Abbey of Saint-Tron, which 
gave him the privilege of disposing of the rights of Kerckum 
by will, or by donation while living. (Reg. of fiefs of Saint- 
Tron E. L. fol. 178.) It was in virtue of this permission that 
in his wiU of Feb. 5, 1650, the very honorable Lord, Louis de 
Hinnisdal de Kerckum ordered or willed that if his brother 
Jean should die without legitimate children, the rights to 
Kerckum and his patrimonial rights should pass to the eldest 
son of his nephew de Hinnisdal, Lord of Fumal. The Abbess 
de Herckenrode, who was his sister, was entitled to part of his 
personal estate. (Record of Jan. 19, 1786, under seal of the 
court of Saint-Tron.) He died without posterity on May 23, 
1651, and was buried in the center of the choir of the church 
at Stewordt in front of the great altar. 

3. JEAN DE HINNISDAL, the elder, born in 1592, Knight of 
■ Cannart; died without posterity previous to the year 1653. 

4. JEAN DE HINNISDAL,* the younger. Gentleman, Knight 
and Lord of Cannart, and afterwards of Kerckum, upon the 
death of his brother Louis. He is described in several acts of 
the Chapter of Munster-Bilsen, in the years 1639 and 1643, 
(Fol. 33 and 34 of the Reg.) as Captain and Governor of the 
forts of Spinola and Kildrecht near Antwerp. On July 1, 
1651, Jean van den Creest, authorized by the noble Lord and 
Captain Jean de Hinnisdal de Kerckum, here described as 
Governor of the forts of Spinola, Kildrecht and others de- 
pendent thereon, made oath for service for the fief of Kerckum, 
held from the Abbey of Saint-Tron. (Reg. F. K. fol. 64 and 
extracts under seal of the same Abbey made by C. Rubens, 
notary public and secretary of the Most Rev. Abbot and Lord 



*Jean de Hinnisdal, in 1653, wrote a memoir in which he records the 
date of the death of Robert de Hinnisdal and Barbe de Roost, his ancestors; 
of Robert, his uncle; of Daniel, his father; of Judith de Baelge, his mother; 
of Barbe de Hinnisdal, the Abbess of Herckenrode; of Louis his brother, who 
had made a legacy to the church of Stewordt, for the support of a chaplain; 
of Jean his other brother, who was Lord of Cannart; of Marie de Baelge, his 
aunt. Prioress of Herckenrode, who died at the age of sixty-eight, and of Jean 
de Brunineck, Lord of Brusthem, his nephew, who died July 26, 1653. 



26 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

of Saint-Tron.) Jean de Hinnisdal, Gentleman, obtained 
from the Abbot of Saint-Tron on Sept. 9, 1653, per- 
mission to dispose of some of the realty at Kerckmn. There 
was a transfer of property in accordance therewith on July 27, 

1657. (The original in Flemish.) His will, dated Oct. 2, 

1658, found in the office of Saint-Tron on July 23, 1764, states 
that in conformity with the will of his brother, Louis, dated 
Feb. 5, 1650, he bequeathed to the eldest son of Philippe 
Herman de Hinnisdal, Gentleman, his nephew. Lord of Fumal, 
the property at Kerckum, reversible in case of his death with- 
out children to the nearest relative of the testator. The 
other leading points are as follows : A privilege of the tax at 
Kerckum which he had received from his cousin Henri 
d'Alsteren, Lord of Hamel, Gentleman, in favor of the said 
Henri. He bequeathed to Frances-Appoline de Hinnisdal 
de Fumal, a house which Jean van der Bosch, Gentleman, 
had sold to him, with the privilege of reversion in case of 
death without issue to the sisters or representatives of the 
said Frances-Appoline. Finally, he bequeathed a rental to 
Alexandre de Hinnisdal, Gentleman, who lived in the neigh- 
borhood of Cleves, a son of the late Raes de Hinnisdal. 
(According to the records signed " H. F. Gerardi, Surrogate.") 
Jean de Hinnisdal died without issue. 

5. BARBE DE HINNISDAL, bom in 1581. She made profes- 
sion of religion (became a nun) in the Abbey of Herckenrode, 
under the Abbess Anne de Blocquerie, on Sept. 3, 1598, and 
was chosen Abbess of this monastery. She died in 1653. 

4. ROBERT DE HINNISDAL, who married N de bloc- 

QXJERiE. He had from this marriage one child: 

1 . MARIE DE HINNISDAL, who became the wife of Guillaume 
de Huesch. 

VISCOUNTS AND BARONS OF FUMAL. 

NICOLAS DE HINNISDAL DE I^RCKUM, first of the 
name, Gentleman, later on. Knight, Lord of Danicken, married 
Christine de Donchierff, otherwise de Donceel. (Quartiers 
genealogiques of the noble families of Pays-Bas in-4 Cologne 1776.) 
On Dec. 1, 1578, Nicolas de Hinnisdal gave quit deed for himself and 
his heirs of the fief of Kerckum. (Copy of deed delivered under the 
Seal of the feudal court of the Abbey of Saint-Tron on Nov. 26, 
1785.) Messire Nicolas de Hinnisdal and Christine de Donchierff 
are mentioned in a document of Mambourne on Mar. 12, 1580. It 
appears from several documents in which they are mentioned that 
they left but one son, called after his father. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 27 

NICOLAS DE HINNISDAL, second of the name, Gentleman, 
Lord of Fumal, of Danicken, of Gratzen, of Hercken, of Stralen, of 
Cannart, etc., served with distinction in the armies of the House of 
Austria. He married, according to the contract of marriage dated 
June 18, 1607, made in the presence of Malton, an Apostolic and 
Imperial notary, Antoinette de Fumal, also called de Warnant, 
daughter of Jean de Fumal de Warnant and of Gertrude d'Anvin. 
(Quartiers genealogiques of the Netherlands.) Nicolas had as wit- 
nesses in making this contract, Herman de Mettecoven and Fostre 
de la Ruelle, both Gentlemen. Antionette de Fumal had as ^^ it- 
nesses her mother, and Jean de Henricourt and Jacques de Woel- 
mont. Esquires. (Original manuscript on file.) He gave proof of 
nobility in presence of the Count d'Egmont, Governor-General of 
the low countries, on Jan. 7, 1610; he made an agreement on Jan. 
14, 1613, with Barbe Brechts, widow of Jean de Vos, who trans- 
ferred to him the house and fortress of Molen-Bisoul, for which he 
gave release at the feudal court of Brabant on the 18th of the same 
month. According to his will, dated Sept. 25, 1641, he wished to 
be buried alongside of his wife in the chapel which he had built in 
the chiu-ch of Fumal, and made a legacy to D. Philippe de Fumal. 
his brother-in-law. Prior of Grandpire, and another to the lady 
Catherine de Donceel, Donchierff, his cousin, a nun at Morche (Reg. 
of the parish of Fumal, fol. 6, 7 and 8). His children were: 

1. PHILIPPE-HERMAN, who succeeded him. 

2. ENGELBERT DE HINNISDAL, who died without issue in 1637. 

3. JEAN DE HINNISDAL, who died after his mother's death and 
before his father, as appears from the will of the latter. 

4. MARGUERITE-CHRISTINE DE HINNISDAL, a nun at Mar- 
cheles-Dames. Her father and mother settled upon her a legacy 
when she made her profession as a nun on Nov. 21 , 1627. 

PHILIPPE-HERMAN, Baron de Hinnisdal, Kjiight, Lord and 
Viscount of Fumal, Lord of Gratzen, of Cannart, of Stralen, of 
Danicken, etc., baptized May 1, 1613, in the parish church of Fumal 
in the county of Namur; was successively an officer in the Wallonne 
regiment of infantry, June 15, 1635; Captain of a Frank company, 
Feb. 12, 1640; and Colonel of a regiment of five companies of the 
Cuirassiers, May 26, 1651; finally, Lieutenant-General and Gover- 
nor and Chief Bailiff of the towns and county of Namur, and first 
Councilman of the same town. (A. B. C. Quartiers genealogiques 
of the noble families of the Netherlands-Pays-Bas p. 191.) He 



28 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

married in the presence of Gilles de Fiennes, Knight and Lord of 
Ranoville Hestrus, etc., under contract made before Rogier and 
Fernagus, Royal Notaries, at Aire, May 16, 1637, Barbe de Lieres, 
daughter of Antoine de Lieres, Knight, Lord of Ferfay, of Couchy- 
a-la-Tour, of Wesemal, of Judrencq, Sessoie, Saint-Cornil, Montergon, 
Herenthals, etc., and of the noble Lady Jacqueline de Tacken, also 
called de Zillebeke, Lady of Zillebeke, of Montergon and other 
places. The bride had as witnesses the high and powerful Lord 
Gilles, Viscount de Lieres, Lord and Baron de Val and of Berne- 
ville, Lord of Saint- Venant, of Nedon, Auchel, Westrehem, Fou- 
quenhem, Haulpreys, Noinville, Saint-Crast, la Riotte, Wisoco, etc., 
and Marshal of the camp. Governor and Grand-Bailiff of the towns, 
castle and district of Saint-Omer. Barbe de Lieres received as 
dower 16,000 florins. (An authenticated copy of this was given 
under the seal of the Grand-Bailiff of Lillers, dated Dec. 20, 1725.) 
Philippe-Herman de Hinnisdal received in fief Kerckum, after the 
death without heirs of his cousins Louis and Jean de Hinnisdal. 
He was recognized at the Abbey of Saint-Tron, May 12, 1660. On 
Nov. 2, 1662, the noble and illustrious Lord, Philippe-Herman de 
Hinnisdal, Baron de Fumal, and Adrien de Lieres, Lord of Ferfay, 
Marshal of the camp, of one-third of the Wallonne infantry, his 
brother-in-law, made an agreement in regard to the payment of the 
dower belonging to Barbe de Lieres, which Adrien de Lieres ful- 
filled by ceding his right at Polinchove, in the domain of the castle 
of Furnes, conformably with the will of Antoine de Lieres and Jac- 
queline de Zillebeke, father and mother of Barbe, Baroness of 
Fumal, dated Dec. 22, 1638. (Extracts collated from the original 
minutes by Desmarets and Coviliers, notaries.) Philippe-Herman 
and Barbe de Lieres were living in 1680. Their children were: 

1. PHILIPPE-HERMAN-DOMINIQUE, who succeeded him. 

2. FLORENCE DE HINNISDAL, who was baptized in the parish 
church at Fumal, April 11, 1644. 

3. YOLANDE DE HINNISDAL, born AprU 5, 1645. 

4. ANNE-CHARLOTTE DE HINNISDAL, who married Gaspard,* 
Count of Chavagnac, Lieutenant-General in the armies of the Em- 
peror, of whom she was the third wife, son of Josue and Lord of 
Chavagnac, of Audredieu du Bousquet, Governor of the castle 

*This ancient family of d'Auvergne is well known since the time of Guil- 
laume de Chavagnac, Gentleman, who lived about 1259, and it has proved 
itself by filiation down to the time of Pierre de Chavagnac, Lord of Chavagnac, 
in 1446. Its chief alliances were made with the houses Auzon de Bonneroche, 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 29 

of Montauban in 1628; afterwards Councilor and first Chamber- 
lain to Gaston, the Duke of Orleans, Gillette, Calvisson, and Saint- 
Alban. Gaspard was the famous Count of Chavagnac, whose 
bravery and diplomatic transactions made him world renowned. 
He was Ambassador at Varsovie to secure the election as King 
of Poland, of the Duke of Lorraine, and Plenipotentiary in 
1678, to negotiate the treaty which secured the restoration of 
Lorraine. Having become a widower by the death of Anne- 
Charlotte de Hinnisdal, he married again for the fourth time in 
France, in 1678, Marie-Therese d'Etampes and died at his castle 
of Bousquet, Feb. 11, 1695. (His Memoirs were published in 
1699). 
5. FRANCOISE-APPOLINE DE HINNISDAL, a nun. 

PHILIPPE-HERMAN-DOMINIQUE, Baron de Hinnisdal, 
Knight, Lord and Viscount of Fumal, Lord of Gratzen, Kerckum, 
Cannart, etc.. Captain in the regiment of High Dutch, under the Baron 
de Berlo in the service of Spain, by letters dated March 17, 1659. 
He married by contract in the presence of Sdrogen, notary public 
at Brussels, June 24, 1673, having as witnesses Messire Philippe- 
Herman, Baron de Hinnisdal, Lord and Viscount of Fumal, formerly 
Colonel of a regiment of cavalry, Lieutenant-General and Sovereign 
Bailiff of the towns and provinces of Namur, his father, and also 
Messire Jean-Charles-Chretien de Landas, a relative. Lord of Louvig- 
nies. Master of the camp of cavalry and General in the service of 
Spain, Catherine-Caroline, Countess of Wallenrode, daughter 
of Messire Jean-Ernest, Baron, and later on, Count of Wallenrode 
and of the Holy Empire,* Lord of Vrechem, of Bell, and of the 

du Vhariol, d'Espinchal, d'Estaing, de Fronlay-Tesse, de Montboissier-Camil- 
lac, des Vos de Saillane, etc. Henri-Louis de Chavagnac, Captain in the navy, 
was nephew of the Count Gaspard and was granted the title of Marquis 
of Chavagnac, February, 1720. (Armorial general de France, II. registre.) 

*It was by diploma dated at Vienne, Feb. 14, 1676, that the Emperor 
Leopold I., granted to Jean Ernest, Baron de Wallenrode, PriA^-Councilor, 
Major-General, and Chamberlain to the Elector of Saxe, and later on Privy- 
Councilor, and Grand-Master of the Elector of Brandebourg for himself and 
his heirs, male and female in perpetuity, the title of Counts and Countesses 
of the Holy Roman Empire with retro-action for three generations, father, 
grandfather, and great-grandfather; uncle, grand-uncle, and great-grand- 
uncle, and with the hereditary title of " Excellence " and of " Grandee," 
through the whole male and female line. Among the considerations men- 
tioned in this concession, which was based on the high antiquity and illus- 
trious deeds of the house of Wallenrode, the diploma recites that in 865, ac- 
cording to Tritelme and Bucelin, in their chronicles, Gunther de Wallenrode 
was Archbishop of Cologne; that the members of his house took part in the 
tourney at Ithal in Saxony, which had been ordered by the Emperor Henri III. 
in 1042; that in 1391, the Lord de Wallenrode was elected Grand-Master of the 



30 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Privy-Council of the Elector of Saxe and one of his Generals, Minis- 
ter and Grand Marshal of the Duke of Saxe-Luxembourg, and the 
illustrious Lady Catherine-Charlotte, Countess of Wonsheim, and 
daughter of Messire Jean-Berthold, Count of Wonsheim. The bride 
had as witnesses, Messire Francois-Gaspard, Count de Schellardt- 
Obendorff, Baron of Muggenhausen and Gentleman of the Chamber 
to his Imperial Majesty and General in his army, Member of the 
council of war, and Colonel of a regiment of the High German, in 
the service of Spain. (Original in manuscript.) According to 
this contract, Philippe-Herman, Baron de Hinnisdal cedes to his 
son, the castle of Cannart, which he had held from the Bishop of 
Liege, Count de Loos, also the Imperial fief of Kerckum and lord- 
ships of Hercken and Borghershoff. The illustrious Lady Ermen- 
garde de GuiUenghien, Countess de Wonsheim, bestowed upon the 
bride, who was her grand-daughter, a marriage gift, and the Coun- 
tess of iVIarck, sister of Catherine-Caroline de Wallenrode, signed the 
contract. Among other clauses, it was stipulated that the bride 
should during her life occupy the Fumal homestead at Huy and 
that it should be provided with 4,000 florins worth of furniture and 
a six-horse carriage. The Baron de Hinnisdal died before May 23, 
1716. He is mentioned in a great number of documents, and is 
mentioned also in the will of the Countess de Furstenberg, his sister- 
in-law, dated June 10, 1717. (Recorded at Tours, April 6, 1726.) 
After having disposed of her property in favor of the Counts Louis- 
Pierre and Auguste de la Marck, her sons, she gave her nephew, the 
Count de Hinnisdal de Fumal, all that remained of her property, 
real and personal, to be divided between him and Francois-Marie 
and Knight de la Marck. (Engrossed on manuscript.) Philippe- 



Teutonic Order (Art de verifier les dates, edit, in-8, t. XVI. p. 485); that in 
1416, Jean de Wallenrode, his brother, became Bishop of Liege, after having 
been Archbishop of Riga in 1394 and one the Fathers of the General Council 
at Constance; an illustrious prelate by reason of his great learning and great 
virtues which he had displayed in the administration of his episcopate. 
(Ibid.,t. XIV. p.221 ; XVII. p. 8.) Finally, alliances with the illustrious house of 
Wallenrode were sought at all times by the most distinguished families, and 
among others by the Counts de Papenheim, de Wittgenstein, de Leiningen 
(Linange), de Woedt, de Walbourg, de Koenigsegg, etc. The Emperor 
Leopold I. also makes mention in one singular document of a very high priv- 
ilege granted in 1488, by the Emperor Frederick III., to Veidtde Wallenrode, 
granting him and his posterity in consideration of their warlike exploits, the 
right to seal their letters with red wax. (Manuscript in German and was 
collated from the original, which bears the bulla of Antoine-Corneille Frolich, 
Imperial Notary, and bearing his coat of arms.) 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 31 

Herman-Dominique and Catherine-Caroline, the Countess of 
Wallenrode, had a son and a daughter. 

1 . JEAN-HERMAN, who foUows. 

2. MARIE-CHARLOTTE DE HINNISDAL DE FUMAL, a nun at 
the Annonciades convent de Venloo in 1697. The Dowager Coun- 
tess de Furstenberg, her aunt, who was born Countess de Wallenrode, 
by deed of Dee. 30, 1700, at the castle de la Bourdaisiere near Tours, 
made a gift of 200 Spanish gold pieces which she had given to 
Marie-Charlotte de Hinnisdal, born Viscountess de Fumal, to the 
said monastery in case her niece should die before five years. 
(In manuscript.) 

JEAN-HERMAN DE HINNISDAL, Knight, Viscount and 
Baron de Fumal, Lord of Kerckum, of Gratzen, of Zillebeke, of Can- 
nart, of Ferfay, of Couchy-a-la-Tour, etc., Colonel-Lieutenant com- 
manding the regiment of la Marck, in the German infantry, Briga- 
dier-General in the army of the King, was born in 1674, and baptized 
in the castle of Fumal, April 18, 1680. He was intended from his 
early youth for the career of arms and became a Lieutenant in June, 
1695, in the regiment of the Count de la Marck, his cousin-germain, 
of the German infantry in the service of the King of France; he 
passed through the different grades from Lieutenant to second in 
command in November, 1696; First Lieutenant in August, 1699; 
Captain in April, 1701; Captain of full grade in June, 1703, with 
the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, July 26, 1710; Sergeant-Major, 
Aug. 1, 1711, with the rank of Colonel, Aug. 5, 1712; Lieutenant- 
Colonel, full rank, Dec. 29, 1714. He served in Flanders in 1696 
and 1697, and on June 10, 1702, took part in the battle of Nimegue 
under the Duke of Burgimdy; afterwards at Echeren, under the 
Marshal de Villars May 10, 1703. The Baron de Fumal fought at 
Ramillies, May 23, 1706, under the Elector of Bavaria and Marshal 
de Villiroy; at the battle of Audenarde July 11, 1708, under the 
Duke de Vendome; afterwards at Malplaquet, under the Marshal de 
Villars, Sept. 11, 1709. On July 12, 1711, he took part in the bril- 
liant affair at Arleux, where the Count de Grassion defeated a 
large body of the allies; and in the following year, he took part in 
the siege and capture of Douay, of Quesnoy and Bouchain, under 
Marshal de Villars. He then joined the army of Germany, after 
the treaty of Utrecht, and was still there under the Marshal de Besons 
at the siege of Landau, Aug. 20, 1713, and spent twenty-five days 
in the trenches. He afterwards was at Fridbourg, which surrendered 



32 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

without discretion to the Marshal de Villars on Nov. 1, following. 
The peace declared with the Emperor was signed at Rastadt, March 
6, 1714. The Baron de Fumal still kept command of the regiment 
of la Marck. He was made Brigadier of Infantry by brevet April 
23, 1721, and received a letter of the King Aug. 8, 1727, ordering 
him to serve in the army of the Meuse under the Count de Belle- 
Isle, and Jan. 1, 1728, received a pension of 800 livres on account 
of the order of Saint-Louis, of which he had received the Cross. 
(Original document.) The Baron de Fumal died Oct. 16, of the 
same year. * (Chronologic historique militaire, par Pinard, t. 
VIII. p. 319; Etat de la France, annee 1722, t. III. p. 473.) Jean- 
Herman was recognized as the Lord of Kerckum in the feudal 
court at the Abbey of Saint-Tron, May 23, 1716. Through dis- 
pensation from Rome on account of consanguinity in the fourth 
degree, he married on Oct. 22, 1714, according to a contract made 
before Rogez & Neauport, Royal Notaries at Arras, the noble and 
illustrious Lady Marie-Claire-Eugenie de Carnin-Lillers,! who 
was countess of the very illustrious Chapter at Maubeuge, eldest 
daughter of the late high and powerful Lord Maximilien-Francois 
de Carnin, Knight, Marquis of Lillers and Nedonchel, Count de 
Quernes, Deputy of the nobility of the estates of Artois, and of the 
high and powerful Lady Marie- Alexandrine-Charlotte de Bethune. 
There were present as witnesses to the contract on the part of the 
Viscount de Fumal, Marie-Catherine-Charlotte, born Countess of 
Wallenrode, Dowager Countess of Furstenbrn-g; Pierre-Louis, Count 
de la Marck and de Schleiden, Marshal of the camp. Colonel of the 
(German regiment of infantry, called after himself, his cousin ger- 
main, the son of her excellency. Madam, the Countess de Fursten- 

*By his will made three days before at the castle Lillers, he had ordered 
that he should be buried in the chapel at Ferfay, near the late Baronness de 
Fumal, his wife. He was fifty-four years of age at the time of his decease. 

fThis ancient family derived its name from a castle situated in French 
Flanders, about three mUes from LiUe. It has been known since the 
time of Jacques de Carnin, Knight, who lived in 1203. Besides the branch 
of Lillers, in whose favor Medonchel was erected into a Marquisate, in 1694, 
there was the branch known as Counts de Stades. This family has been long 
attached to the house of Burgundy. One of the brothers of the Baroness de 
Fimial was Lieutenant-General in the army of the King of Spain, and com- 
manded a battalion of the Wallonnes guards. Jean de Carpentier in his his- 
tory of Cambreses (III partie, p. 172) has confounded this house of de Carnin 
with that of de Carvin, an equally ancient house, and neighbors of the former. 
The principal alliances of the Carnin family were with Avion, Banff remez, 
Bergnes, Chateau villain, Marckais, la Tour-Sain t-Quentin, Weudim, etc. 
(Diet, de la noblesse in-4 1. III. p. 514.) 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 33 

berg; and on the part of the bride, her aunt, Anne de Noyelles, 
widow of Charles-Jacques-Francois de Bethune, Marquis d'Hes- 
degneul; Marie-Gilles-Claude de Carnin, Dowager Countess of Thi- 
ennes, her aunt; Jacques-Bona venture de Carnin, Marquis of Lillers; 
Charles-Guislain-Francois de Carnin, Marquis of Nedonchel; Al- 
bert-Francois de Carnin, Abbot de Lillers, her brothers; Eugene- 
Francois de Bethune, Marquis d'Hesdegneul, Deputy in ordinary 
for the nobility of Artois and the Lady Camille de Pietra-Santa, 
his wife, the uncle and aunt of the bride, and Adrien- Joseph de 
Carnin, Canon of the Cathedral de Tournay, her cousin-germain. 
(Copie coUationee par Duminil et Moinard notaires royaux a Arras, 
le deux Mars, 1726.) From this marriage there was issue as follows: 

1. LOUIS-JOSEPH-HERMAN DE HINNISDAL, Baron de Fumal, 
born in the castle of Ferfay, July 2, 1715, officer in the regiment of 
la Marck, in which he served at the siege of Kehl and of Philis- 
bourg in 1733 and 1734, and died at Casternau de Reggenis in 
Italy, April 22, 1735.$ He was unmarried. (Certificat du Comte 
de DoneU, Archipretre de Casternau.). 

2. ADRIEN EUGENE-HERMAN, who continued the line. 

3. FRANCOIS-MAXIMILIEN-HERMAN-DRUON DE HINNIS- 
DAL, known as the Abbot of Fumal, born April 2, 1721; Canon of 
the collegiate church of Lillers in 1740; afterwards Provost of the 
metropolitan church at Cambray, and Abbot in command for the 
abbacies of Beauport in Bretagne and d'Auberine, and was still 
living in 1780. 

4. PHILIPPE-JOSEPH-HERMAN DE HINNISDAL, known as the 
Knight de Fumal, bom Sept. 26, 1723; an officer in the regiment of 
the King (infantry) ; afterwards Captain in the corps of grenadiers 
of France; Knight of the Order of Saint-Louis; Colonel of the regi- 
ment d'Harion and Brigadier-General in the army of the King.* 
He was not living in 1780. 

5. LOUISE-CHARLOTTE-GILLIETTE DE HINNISDAL, bom 
July 30, 1716. 

6. MARIE-PHILIPPINE-ALDEGONDE DE HINNISDAL, born 
Aug. 16, 1717. 

J He was at that time serving in the army of Italy under the Marquis of 
MaiUesbois, commanding the corps of reserves with the Count Louis Engelbert 
de la Marck, cousin-germain of the Baron de Fumal. (Chronologie historique 
militaire, t. V. p. 331.) 

*The nobility des Pays-Bas (Netherlands t. II. p. 698), has mixed up 
the military grades held by Philippe- Joseph-Herman, with the ecclesiastical 
dignities and titles held by Francois-Maximilien-Herman-Druon, his brother; 
and under date of Nov. 21, 1780, they are incorrectly mentioned, the first 
as Louis-Maximilien-Herman-Druon and the second as Francois-Eugene- 
Herman. 



34 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

7. DOROTHEE-CLAIRE-FRANCOISE DE HINNISDAL, born 
Aug. 11, 1722, Canoness of the Noble Chapter of the Reine at 
; Bourbourg in 1740; died in 1786. (La France chevaleresque et 

chapitrale, annee 1786, p. 150.) 

ADRIEN-EUGENE-HERMAN, Count de Hinnisdal, Baron de 
Fumal, Lord of Ferfay, d'Ames, de Wez, de Couchy-a-la-Tour, de 
Bruston, etc., born Aug. 30, 1718. Marie-Alexandrine-Charlotte 
de Bethune, Dowager Marchioness of Lillers, his grandmother and 
guardian, made homage to the King at the treasury in Lille in his 
own name and in the name of his brothers, for the lands and seign- 
iory of Ames in connection with his ownership of the castle of Aire.* 

Adrien-Eugene-Herman, in concert with his brothers, made a 
provisional division of the property left by their father and mother 
as appears from an act certified by Collin, Royal Notary at Aire, 
July 18, 1771. By this petition, lands of Ferfay and ten of the 
Seigniories of the Nedenchol and Quernes fell to the lot of Louis- 
Joseph-Herman, Baron de Fumal, the eldest brother. (The origi- 
nal is in manuscript.) On Dec. 17, 1733, the Dowager Marchioness 
of Lillers and Pierre Caran, Curate of the village of Lieres, who had 
been substituted as tutor for Louis- Joseph-Herman de Hinnisdal, an 
officer of the regiment of la Marck, made homage to the King for the 
fief of Wez, situated at Maries, in the name of the minor children of 
Jean-Herman de Hinnisdal. (The original of this document is on 
parchment, sealed.) Adrien-Eugene-Herman de Hinnisdal, Baron 
de Fumal, Captain in the regiment of la Marck (infantry), Fran- 
cois-Maximilien-Herman-Druon de Hinnisdal, Canon of the Col- 
legiate church at Lillers, and Philippe- Joseph-Herman de Hinnisdal, 
an officer in the regiment of the King (infantry) , made a new parti- 
tion in the presence of Meiu-iche and his colleague, notaries at Aire, 
Oct. 13, 1740. (The original in manuscript, signed by the parties.) 
Adrien-Eugene-Herman, married by contract made in the presence 
of Gotschalck, the public notary of the town and castle of Ypres, 
on Dec. 9, 1747, the high and puissant demoiselle Marie-Philippine 
DE BouRNEL, Lady de Monchy-Cayeux, de Souich, de Montagne, de 
Houvin, de Houvigneul, de Moncheaux and other places, daughter 

*The Baron de Fumal, his father, had made homage to the King for the 
seigniory of Ames, Feb. 16, 1714. This seigniory had belonged to Jacques 
de Lieres, Lord of Ferfay, Dean of the cathedral church of Saint-Omer, 
and to Marc-Pierre de la Haye, Lord of Werp, as appears from a document of 
homage dated Feb. 25, 1700. (The original is in parchment, sealed.) 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 35 

of the deceased high and puissant Lord Jean-Charles de Bournel, 
Marquis de Monchy, Lieutenant-General in the armies of the King, 
Commander of the Order of Saint-Louis, and of the high and puis- 
sant Lady Marie-Catherine Forcadel, who had married the second 
time Claude, Marquis de Ceberet, Lieutenant-General and Com- 
mander of the Order of Saint-Louis, and Governor of Ypres. (Docu- 
ment signed by the notary.) Adrien-Eugene-Herman was re- 
ceived as a member of the estates of Artois on Oct. 29. 1750, he 
having been summoned to the assembly which took place on Nov. 
8, 1751, by a letter from King Louis XV. dated Oct. 16, of the same 
year, and was there confirmed. (Original document.) Marie- 
Philippine de Bournel was the widow of the Count de Hinnisdal, at 
the time she made her will at the castle of Ferfay, on the 9th of 
April, 1759, in the presence of Teffart and Darse, Royal Notaries 
at Lillers. She bequeathed all her property to her eldest son, Marie- 
Eugene-Francois-Herman, Count de Hinnisdal. (Copie collationee 
par les memes notaires.) She divided her right to the succession on 
June 6, 1766, as appears by a document before Chartier, notary at 
Paris, with Louis de Bournel, Marquise of Monstier, her sister, to the 
succession of their deceased nephew Messire Marc-Charles de Bour- 
nel, who died at Paris Jan. 12, 1762. (Original on parchment.) 
She made a final will at the Castle of Monchy-Cayeux, in the presence 
of Detappl, Royal Notary of Saint-Pol, on Nov. 16, 1786, and died 
on the following day.* She had by the Count de Hinnisdal, the 
following children : 

*The Countess de Hinnisdal was the last of an ancient and illustrious 
race. Her ancestors were ranked among the leading nobility of d' Artois, 
as far back as the year 1096. Hugues Bournel, Ivnight, Lord d' Equerchin, 
lived in about the year 1136. Hugues II., his son, born of his marriage 
with Alix de Crevecoeur, was living in 1172, and had a son Hugues 
III., who was Governor of Cambray in 1215. (Hist, de Cambresis, III. 
partie, p. 297.) The Lords of these two great families, Thiembronne 
and Monchy, had extended their lands into the territory of Bournel. This 
latter house has always held high position at the court and in the army. 
Pierre Bournel was Provost-Marshal for the county of Clermont 1314; Hue 
Bournel, Chamberlain of King Charles VI., in 1417; Jean II., Governor of 
Saint-Menehould, under Louis XL; Antoine, Knight of Rhodes, one of the 
defenders of the island, under the Grand-Master d'Aubusson and Commander 
d'Auxonne in 1482; Guillaume Bournel, Grand-Master of artillery in France in 
1473 ; Hugues, Lord of Lamber-court, Knight of the Golden Fleece, Governor of 
LUle, of Douay, Orchies and Bapaume in 1578; one of the leading captains of 
his time, grandson of Guichard Bournel of Namps; Sovereign-Bailiff of the 
county of Guines, who had made his name a terror to the English, together 
with his brother Louis Bournel de Thiembronne. The alliances made by this 
family kept up the illustrious character of the house. As for instance with 
the house of de Craon, de Crequy, de Croy, de Dixmude, d'Estrees, de Longue- 
val, de Melun, de Davense, de Roucy, de Seissons-MoreuU, de Villiers- 
d'lsle-Adam, de Wissocq, etc. (Voyez I'Histoire des Grands-Officiers de la 
Courorme, t. VIII. pp. 451 and 457.) 



36 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

1. MARIE-EUGENE-FRANCOIS-HERMAN, who succeeded. 

2. LOUIS-MAXIMILIEN-FRANCOIS-HERMAN, Baron de Hinnia- 
dal, de Fumal, born May 2, 1751, was Captain in the regiment de 
la Marck in 1776. In 1785, he was Colonel of infantry in a Ger- 
man regiment in the service of France, and Governor of the 
town of Lillers in Artois. He was promoted to the rank of 
Colonel of the camp, Dec. 15, 1791, and later on appointed Gov- 
ernor of Saint-Domingo. He died in 182-, without issue. 

3. ELEONORE-PHILIPPE-AUSTREBERTE DE HINNISDAL. 
born Feb. 11, 1753, and died in her youth. 

4. MARIE-JOSEPHE-OMER DE HINNISDAL, born Dec. 6, 1756, 
and died in 1771. 

MARIE-EUGENE-FRANCOIS-HERMAN, Count de Hinnis- 
dal, Baron de Fumal and de Monchy, Lord of Ferfay, d'Ames, de 
Couchy-a-la-Tour, de Cannart, de Kerckum, d'Alest, de Brustem, 
Montague, de Moncheaux, etc., was born Feb. 5, 1748. At the age 
of fifteen, he joined the corps of musketeers, and rose to the rank of 
Captain of dragoons of Conty in 1771. In this year he was ap- 
pointed Councilor to the embassy at Lisbon, where, diuing a long 
absence of the Marquis de Clermont d'Amboise, Ambassador of 
France, and after the suppression of the Ambassadorial council, 
which took place in 1773, he remained alone as Charge d' Affaires even 
in matters relating to the navy and the ministerial correspond- 
ence. In 1776, he accompanied the Marquis de Clermont d'Am- 
boise to Naples. He had three years previously received the ap- 
pointment as Captain in the regiment de la Marck. *He was Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel, when by deed of Nov. 21, 1780, made before Mer- 
chier, a notary at Arras, he shared with his brother, the Baron 
de Hinnisdal, who was also a Colonel in the German infantry in 
the service of France, the property belonging to his family. These 
deeds disposed of all rights which they had to the succession of their 
father, and their uncle, who was Metropolitan-Provost at Cambray, 
who held title on behalf of M. de Hinnisdal, Colonel in the regi- 
ment d'Horion,and Brigadier-General in the armies of the King, his 
brother. (Copy of original signed by Husson and Merchier.) 
The Count de Hinnisdal had displayed a great aptitude for 
business, but his health was not equal to the strain; he died at 
Paris on the 19th of IMay, 1786. He was at the time Colonel in 

* On Feb. 8, 1775, he gave a power of attorney to his mother for the 
sale of the lands of Zillebeke; it is dated at Lyons, when he was on his way to 
Italy (Pachot, notaire). 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 37 

command of the regiment d' Alsace, and Knight of the Order of 
Saint-Louis. The King granted a pension of 2,000 livres to his 
widow and 1,000 to each of his children. (Letter of the Marshal 
de Segur, dated July 1, 1786.) He had married according to 
contract on March 10-11, 1776, in the presence of and in accord- 
ance with the wishes of the King and Queen and of the prince and 
princesses of the royal family and of all the princes of the blood of 
France, as appears from the contract made before Blacque and 
Boulard, Royal Notaries, at the chatelet in Paris, the high and 
very puissant demoiselle, Catherine-Louise-Silvine de Seig- 
LiERES, DE Belleforiere, DE SoYECouRT,t the eldest daughter 
of the very high and very puissant Lord Joachim-Charles de 
Seiglieres, de Belleforiere, Count de Soyecourt, Marquis de 
Guerbigny, Baron d'ltres. Lord of Regniere-Ecluse, d'Eaucourt 
and other places. Master of the Camp for the cavalry, and of 
the very high and very puissant Lady Marie-Silvine de Berenger 

fThis family, which had its origin from de la Marche, has borne the 
surnames of " de Belleforiere," and "de Soyecourt," through inheritance and 
by substitution from two ancient houses. That of de Soyecourt (de Sectori 
Corte) was in existence in the country of Santerre, in which their original lands 
were situated, towards the middle of the twelfth century. Gilles I., Lord of 
Soyecourt, son of Jean, who lived in 1162, gave in 1191 to the Abbey of Hon- 
necourt, the lands which it possessed at Villiers. (Hist, of Cambresis, III. 
partie, p. 1029.) In 1298. Huet, Lord of Soyecourt, was one of the Lords who 
accompanied the constable de Nesle (Raoul de Clermont) at the time that he 
brought the Count de Juliers to the court of Philippe-le-Bel. GiUes II., 
Lord of Soyecourt, his son, was Grand-Chancellor of France in 1328, and was 
killed at the battle of Crecy on Aug. 26, 1346. (Hist, des Grands OfRciers de 
la Couronne t. VIII., p. 524.) The heiress of his noble family, Francoise de 
Soyecourt, married in 1586, Ponthus de Belleforiere, Governor of Corbie, at 
which place he was killed in a surprise made by Lord d'Humieres. Their 
grandson, Charles-Maximilien-Antoine de Belleforiere, who was head of a 
house that had been distinguished ever since 1250, was Marquis of Soyecourt 
and of Guerbigny, in the county of Tilloloy, etc., Knight of the Order of the 
King in 1661, and Grand-Hunstman to the king of France in 1669. He married 
Marie-Renee de Longieil, daughter of the Marquis de Maisons, Superin- 
tendent of the Treasury. Marie-Renee de Belleforiere born of this marriage, 
having survived the Marquis and the Knight de Soyecourt, her brothers, 
who were killed at Fleurus in 1690, assumed the title of Marquise de Belle- 
foriere. She had five years previously married Thimoleon-Gilbert de Seiglieres, 
Lord of Boisfrance, Master of requests in ordinary at the King's palace, and 
Chancellor to the Duke d'Orleans, to whom she bequeathed all the property 
of the house of Soyecourt. Joachim- Adolphe de Seiglieres, de Belleforiere, 
Marquis of Soyecourt, Count of Tilloloy, issue of this marriage, was a 
Colonel in the regiment of Burgundy and Brigadier in the armies of the King, 
and left as heirs from his marriage with Pauline-Corysandre de Pas de 
Feuquieres, three sons, namely, the Marquis de Soyecourt; the Marquis 
de Feuquieres; and the Count of Soyecourt, who was father of this 
Countess de Hinnisdal. (Hist, des Grand Officiers de la Couronne, t. VIII. p. 
757; Diet, de la noblesse, par la Chenaye-des-Bois, edit, in-12, t. II. p. 295.) 



38 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

du Gua. (The original document on parchment.) The Countess 
de Hinnisdal was condemned to death by the revolutionary 
tribunal at Paris on July 24, 1794, and was executed two days 
before the fall of Robespierre. She had two sons: 

1. JOACHIM-LOUIS-ERNEST, who succeeded. 

2. JEAN-SIL VAIN-HERMAN, Knight of Hinnisdal, bom June, 24, 
1781; knighted in his minority in the Order of Malta by a bull from 
Pope Pius VI., dated Nov. 25, following. He died in his youth, 
shortly before his mother's death. 

JOACHIM-LOUIS-ERNEST, Count de Hinnisdal, Baron de 
Fumal, was baptized on Dec. 29, 1779; was placed under the 
guardianship of his mother and of the Count de Lannoy (Fran- 
cois-Ferdinand), Marshal of the camp. May 27, 1786. In 1800, he 
married Josephine-Melanie de Villeneuve-Tourrettes, daugh- 
ter of the Count de Villeneuve-Toiu-rettes and of Mademoiselle de 
Villeneuve-Vence.* He died in the month of March, 1814, leaving 
issue as follows: 

1. RAYMOND-JO ACHIM-AMBROISE-HERMAN, who succeeded. 

2. MARIE-CHANT AL-OURSINE-CAMILLE DE HINNISDAL, 
who married the Count de Schulenbm-g. 

3. MARIE-ORMANDE-ROZOLINE DE HINNISDAL. 



RAYMOND-JO ACHIM-AMBROISE-HERMAN, Count de Hm- 
nisdal, born April 20, 1808, married in July, 1839, Marie-Fran- 
coise-Gabrielle, Countess of Bryas, who died on Mar. 28, 1846. 
She was a daughter of Alexandre-Francois-Ferdinand-Guislain- 
Marie de Bryas, Marquis of Milinghem, Baron of Moriane and 
d'Hernicourt, Colonel in the cavalry, and an Officer of the Legion 



*The house of de Villeneuve has played a grand role in the history of 
Provence, to such an extent that we need merely mention its name in order 
to revive all the recollections of that country. Its wealth of possessions, the 
grandeur of its alliances, the brilliancy of its political as well as private dis- 
tinctions, has secured for this family a unique distinction, and the house has 
kept its dignity during six centuries on the highest footing in a country that 
that has been so rich in illustrious families. There were numerous branches 
about whom the reader need only consult any of the histories of the noble 
families of Provence. The branch de Vence was called to the peerage in 
1815. The branch de Tourrettes presents this remarkable peculiarity, that 
owing to the continuity of its brilliant alliances, it has always found itself 
related to the crowned heads and princely houses of Europe. (Voyez I'abbe 
Robert, Atrefeuille, etc.) 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 39 

of Honor, Knight of the Order of Saint-Louis, and of Marie-Therese- 
Louise de Hunelstein. From this marriage was issue as follows: 

1. MARIE-JOSEPH-HENRI DE HINNISDAL, bom in AprU, 1841. 

2. MARIE-THERESE DE HINNISDAL, bom in July, 1843. 

THE BRANCH DE SCHABROUCK. 

HERMAN DE HINNISDAL, the ninth of the name, second 
son of Herman (VIII.) de Hinnisdal, Knight, and of Marie de 
Corswarem, was made by his mother on the death of Herman VIII. , 
administrator of the fiefs and property of Schabrouck and Kerckum, 
Mervele, and Streden, and he took oath in such capacity as ap- 
pears by an act of Nov. 3, 1548, executed in the portico of the 
Abbey of Saint-Tron, in the presence of Pre du Pre, Lieutenant in 
charge of the fiefs, and of Arnold van den Rouchout, of Nicolas 
de Herckenrode, of Arnold van Elder, of Gerard de Hautehm, etc., 
vassals of the Abbey. (Copy of deed dated Nov. 23, 1785, under seal 
of the feudal court of the Abbey of Saint-Tron.) Herman IX. 
had married Marguerite de Corteshem, otherwise known as de 
Printaghenm, mentioned in a document dated 1566. (Supple- 
ment aux trophees de Brabant, t. I. p. 443.) They had a son: 

RAES DE HINNISDAL, the first of the name. Gentleman, 
Lord of Schabrouck, who was living in 1566 and married Eliz- 
abeth DE DoNCHiERFF, also called de Donceel. (Supplement aux 
trophees de Brabant, t. I, p. 444.) He made homage for the fief of 
Schabrouck in the hands of the Lieutenant in the charge of Fiefs 
for the Abbey of Saint-Tron, on Dec. 31, 1581. It is stated in 
this document that the fief had formerly belonged to Olivier de 
Schabrouck. (Copy of paper executed on Nov. 28, 1785.) Eliza- 
beth de Donceel, the widow, took back her title and established as 
administrator Herman van Mettecoven, Councilman of Saint-Tron, 
on Feb. 4, 1604. (Copy of deed delivered Nov. 30, 1785, and 
sealed.) Raes I. had by her a son and daughter: 

1. RAES II., who succeeded. 

2. ANNE-MARIE DE HINNISDAL, who married Hercule d'Erken- 
teel, who took the fief of Schabrouck in 1619. She died in 1669. 

RAES DE HINNISDAL, second of the name, was Governor 
of Wezel and Lord of Schabrouck, which he took in fief in 1619, 



40 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

together with Hercule d'Erkenteel. He married Elizabeth de 
GoTTERswYc, widow of the Baron d'Effersen. (Supplement aux 
trophees de Brabant t. I, p. 444; Cabinet de M. de Roovere.) It 
is mentioned that he was dead at the date of the will Oct. 2, 1658, 
made by the noble Lord Jean de Hinnisdal, Lord of Cannart, who 
bequeathed the property to his son Alexandre, who then lived in 
the country of Cleves. He had two sons and one daughter: 

1. ALEXANDRE DE HINNISDAL, and Lord d'Akenenden, who 
died without issue. 

2. AMBROISE DE HINNISDAL, who also died without issue. The 
branch de Fumal made a plea in 1716 against the Monastery of 
Duysbourg, in the country of Cleves, in a dispute about rents, 
which Jean de Hinnisdal, Lord of Cannart, had guaranteed to 
Ambroise, through his will dated Oct. 2, 1658; and on this occasion, 
the King at-Arms of the Emperor gave a genealogical certificate 
dated Oct. 17, 1716. 

3. CLAIRE-JUDITH DE HINNISDAL, Abbess of the Val-Saint- 
Elizabeth at Duysbourg. (Suppl. aux trophees de Brabant p. 444.) 



THE LORDS D'OTRENGE, DE HEURNE, ETC. 

GILLES DE HINNISDAL, the second of the name, Esquire, sec- 
ond son of Herman IV, de Hinnisdal, Lord of Kerckum, Master 
and Protector of the town of Tongres, and of Catherine de Gutsch- 
oven, is mentioned in the charters of 1430 and 1431. (Supplement 
aux trophees de Brabant t. I, p. 443.) He left by his marriage 
with Marie Lyfsoens one son, who follows. 

ARNOUL DE HINNISDAL, Esquire, was living in 1470. 
(Supplement aux trophees de Brabant t. I, p. 443.) He married 
Marie Averweys and had two sons: 

1. HENRI, who foUows. 

2. WATHIEU II., head of the branch of the Lords of Soumagne 
and Monstreul, Counts de Hinnisdal, referred to later on. 

HENRI DE HINNISDAL, living in 1480, married Jeanne de 
Hinnisdal, a relative, by whom he had Guillaume, who follows. 

GUILLAUME DE HINNISDAL, Esquire, died in 1551, having 
had by his marriage with Sophie de Prunen, who died in 1539, 
the following issue: 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 41 

1. DENIS, the first of the name, who succeeded. 

2. SOPHIE DE HINNISDAL, who married, in 1540, Henri de Jay- 
maert* de Geneffe. 

DENIS DE HINNISDAL, first of the name, Lord d'Otrenge, 
married, first, Catherine Gotaus, who died in 1558, and second, 
Anne de Hulsberg, also called de Schaloen. (Recueil herald- 
ique des bourgmestres de Liege, pp. 343, 344, 492.) His children 
were: 

By the first marriage: 

1. GUILLAUME DE HINNISDAL, who died without issue. 

2. DENIS II., who continued the line. 

3. JEAN I. DE HINNISDAL, married Mechtilde de Mettecoven, 
who was the daughter of Henri de Mettecoven and of Emerentione 
de Rickel, by whom he had two sons and two daughters: 

1. HERMAN V. DE HINNISDAL, who married Marguerite 
VAN Arnhem, his cousin, who was a daughter of Hugues van 
Arnhem and Anne de Withem. From them descended: 

LAURENT DE HINNISDAL, Lord of Nieuwerkerque, 
who left by his marriage with Christine de Heers only 
one daughter, namely : 

ERMILINDE-MECHTILDE DE HINNISDAL, the 
wife of Jean-Maximilon de Troostemberg. 

2. HENRI II. DE HINNISDAL, who married Jeanne van den 
Abeel, and left one child, namely: 

JEAN II. DE HINNISDAL, Lord d'Op-Linter. This 
son married Christine-Marie de Wezeren, Lady of 
Schabrouck; they had the following children: 

JEAN-HENRI-GILBERT DE HINNISDAL, who 

died without issue. 

LUCIE-THERESE DE HINNISDAL, wife of 

Jacques Andre de Wezeren. 

3. EMERENTIONE DE HINNISDAL, wife of Jean de Valpen, 
who was of an ancient knighted family from the country of 
Liege. (Recueil heraldique des bourgmestres, p. 434.) 

4. CATHERINE DE HINNISDAL, a nun at Vrouwe-Percq. 

4. CECILE DE HINNISDAL, who married m 1566, Wathieu de 
Mombeeck. 

5. JEANNE DE HINNISDAL, who married, first, Conrad van der 
Warden, Lord of Liers, and, second, Lambert van den Bosch de 
Melin. 

♦Renard Jaymaert, Lord of Freloux, was a Colonel in the service of 
France and Burgomaster of Liege in 1646. (Recueil heraldique des bourg- 
mestres, p. 414.) 



42 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

6. CATHERINE DE HINNISDAL, a nun at Melin. 

7. ANNE DE HINNISDAL. the wife of Amiel de Velroux. 

By the second marriage: 

8. SOPHIE DE HINNISDAL, Lady of Otrenge, who married, first, 
Birck Wechter, who qualified by right of his wife as Lord of Otrenge, 
and, second, Bernard de Toilet, Lord of Otrenge, Gutschoven 
and Beaufroipont, burgomaster of the city of Liege in 1589. 
They were both buried in the church of Saint-Nicolas au Trez, 
where their quarterings may be seen. (Recueil heraldique des 
bourgmestres de Liege, pp. 344, 345.) 

DENIS DE HINNISDAL, second of the name, married Mar- 
guerite VAN DEN Bosch de Melin. (Supplement aux trophees 
de Brabant, p. 444.) He had by this marriage, one son, Denis 
III., who succeeded. 

DENIS DE HINNISDAL, third of the name. Lord of Heurne 
and de Wechmael, married Francoise de Rickel. He died Aug. 
23, 1633. His widow survived until May 22, 1637. They were 
buried in the choir of the chiu"ch at Rickel, in one tomb, on which 
were traced their armorial bearings. From their marriage there 
came: 

1. OTTON DE HINNISDAL, who died Aug. 18, 1676, and was 
buried in the church at Rickel, where the coat of arms of his family 
was placed. He left no issue. 

2. JEAN II., mentioned later on. 

3. ARNOUL DE HINNISDAL, Canon of Saint-Jean de Liege. 

4. FRANCOISE DE HINNISDAL, a nun at Herkenrode. 

5. ELIZABETH DE HINNISDAL, a nun at Vrouwe-Percq. 

JEAN DE HINNISDAL, second of the name. Lord of Heurne, 
of Rickel, and other places, had for wife, Jeanne-Agnes-Eleo- 
nore de Rheede. She survived him and married M. de Bin- 
tinck, de Obitch. By the Lord de Heurne, her first husband, she 
had as follows: 

1. ADRIEN-FRANCOIS DE HINNISDAL, Lord de Heurne and de 
Rickel, who died without issue. 

2. CONSTANCE-MARGUERITE DE HINNISDAL, a nun at Herk- 
enrode, who died in 1693. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 43 



THE LORDS DE SOUMAGNE, DE MONSTREUL, ETC. 

WATHIEU DE HINNISDAL, second of the name, Uving in 
1477, was the second son of Arnoul de Hinnisdal and of Marie 
Avermeys, and married Marguerite de Keersbeck. (Voyez 
sur cette famille, le Miroir des nobles de Hasbaye, pp. 22, 23.) 
They had one son: 

MELCHIOR I. DE HINNISDAL, who was Uving in 1541. 
(Supplement aux trophees de Brabant, p. 443.) He married 
Marie Van den Cruyce.* They had two sons: 

1. JEAN DE HINNISDAL, who died without issue. 

2. LEON, who succeeded. 

LEON DE HINNISDAL married Marie van der Hulst, also 
called de Taxis, who died in 1600. He survived her twelve years. 
(Supplement aux trophees de Brabant, p. 444.) They had two 
children: 

1. MELCHIOR II., who contmued the line. 

2. MARIE DE HINNISDAL, who married Martin Emerix. 

MELCHIOR DE HINNISDAL, second of the name. Commis- 
sary at Maestricht, who died in 1634, married Jeanne de Meers, 
who died in 1634. They had: 

1. BERNARD DE HINNISDAL, Canon of the MetropoUtan church 
at Cambray and of the Cathedral at Liege, and Arch-Deacon of 
Valenciennes, who died in 1663. 

2. FRANCOIS, first of the name who continued the line. 

3. LEON DE HINNISDAL, who died in the service of the Emperor. 

4. JEANNE DE HINNISDAL, 

5. ADRIENNE DE HINNISDAL, both nuns at Robertmont. 

FRANCOIS DE HINNISDAL, first of the name. Lord of Mon- 
streul, died in 1675. Catherine-Dorothee de Beeckman, his 
wife, survived him eleven years. They had three sons and five 



*The alliances with this family were de Boote, de Camarena, de 
Deckere, de Heetveelde, des Mares de Walle, de Meyers, de Shelllnck, etc. 
(Nobiliaire des Pays-Bas, t. I. pp. 220, 305, t. II. p. 394; Quartiers genealo- 
giques des families nobles des Pays-Bas, p. 251.) 



44 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

daughters. (The Beeckmans were a very distinguished family in 
the history of the city of Liege.) 

(Recueil heraldique des bourgmestres de la noble cite de Liege, 
pp. 358, 359, 360, 385, 429, 450, 45L) 

1. MELCHIOR DE HINNISDAL, who died without issue. 

2. GUILLAUME DE HINNISDAL, Lord of Soumagne and of Melin, 
Canon, Grand-Chanter, Co- Administrator and Vicar-General of 
the Bishopric of Liege, Provost of Saint-Croix, who died in 1709. 
(Ibid. p. 205.) 

3. WATHIEU-LAMBERT DE HINNISDAL, who continued theline. 

4. MARIE DE HINNISDAL, a nun at Val-Benoit. 

5. JEANNE DE HINNISDAL, 

6. DOROTHEE DE HINNISDAL, both nuns at Vivegnies. 

7. MARGUERITE DE HINNISDAL, Abbess at Robertmont. 

8. TIEODORE DE HINNISDAL, Ursuline nun at Liege. 

WATHIEU-LAMBERT DE HINNISDAL, Kjiight, Lord of 
Monstreul, was chosen Covmcilman of the noble city of Liege in 
1685, and died in 1693. (Recueil heraldique des bourgmestres de 
Liege, p. 205.) By his marriage with Jeanne-Marie de Simony, 
who died in 1672, he had the following issue: 

1. FRANCOIS II., who succeeded. 

2. DOROTHEE DE HINNISDAL, Lady of Gutschoven, who mar- 
ried in 1691, Charles, Baron de Mean, Councilor of the city of 
Liege, who died Oct. 12, 1693. 

FRANCOIS, Count de Hinnisdal, second of the name, Knight, 
Lord of Soumagne, de Betho, d'Oleye, du Grand-Assch, de Melin, 
etc., married by contract dated Nov. 14, 1694, the noble and illus- 
trious demoiselle, Marie-Anne-Florence-Therese de Berchem, 
Lady of Tonglaier, de Saint-Pierre- Wolluwe, etc., who died Dec. 
31, 1697, and was buried in the church of Saint-James, at Tongres. 
She was the daughter of the noble and illustrious Lord Henri- 
Antoine Berchem, Knight, Lord of Tonglaer, Crainheim, de Saint- 
Pierre-Waluwe, de Stockeel, etc., and d'Agathe-Clemence Kieffel, 
Lady of Crainheim. Francois II. after the loss of his wife joined 
the chiu-ch and was chosen Canon of the Cathedral of Liege and 
Provost of Tongres. He is thus spoken of in a diploma dated 
Feb. 10, 1733, by virtue of which the Emperor Charles VI. raised 
him to the rank of Count, with title transmissible to all his pos- 
terity, male and female. He made his will March 17, 1723, and by 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 45 

virtue of the authority which he had obtained on May 28, 1712, 
allowing him to dispose of his property, he bequeathed to the Count 
de Hinnisdal, de Crainheim, his son, the castle of Micheroux, with 
the seigniories of de Soumagne and Melin, and what belonged to 
him of the titles of d'Oleye and de Grand-Assch, to possess them 
in perpetuity. Among the prescriptions of this document, he re- 
quires of his descendants that the possessor who succeeds to the 
title shall marry only a demoiselle of ancient extraction and of 
military nobility, and in case of failure to do so, he shall be in- 
capacitated from holding the title, which in this case shall pass 
to the nearest relative who shall have contracted such an alliance. 
The Baroness de Romerwale, his daughter, received as her legacy 
the castle of Bothe. The Count Francois II. died of apoplexy at 
Mechhn July 6, 1728. (Nobihaire des Pays-Bas, t. II. p. 698.) 
He had only two children: 

1. JOSEPH-GUILLAUME-WATHIEU DE HINNISDAL, who 

continued the line. 

2. DOROTHEE-FRANCOISE DE HINNISDAL, Lady of Tonglaer, 
who married, in 1715, Adrien-Joseph van der Gracht,* Baron de 
Romerwale and Vermde, Lord of Leddick, d'Yrsse, de Bathen- 
brand, etc., Member of the Nobility of the Dutch of Brabant, and 
died without posterity at Mechlin on Feb. 25, 1745. (Diet, de la 
noblesse in-4, 1774, t. VII. p. 587.) He died at Liege Jan. 25, 1747. 

JOSEPH-GUILLAUME-WATHIEU, Count de Hinnisdal and of 
Crainheim, married in 1723, Isabelle-Charlotte, who was born 
Coimtess de Hoensbroeck, de Guell, daughter of the Count de 
Hoensbroeck, de Geull, in the coimtry of Gueldres. He had one 
son: 

HENRI-ANTOINE-BERNAKD, Count de Hinnisdal and of 
Crainheim, born May 23, 1725; married Aug. 28, 1753, Therese- 
Marguerite-Philiberte de Mettecoven, daughter ofWathieu- 
Everard-Andre-Francois de Mettecoven, and of Marie-Madeline de 
Geloes. From this marriage there issued: 



*The family of Van der Gracht was an Ulustrious one, connected with 
the principal families of Brabant, and had also made alliances with other 
German and French families of renown, such as d' Argenteau, de Berghes, 
de Berlo, de Croix, de GhisteUes, d'Hallwin, de Lichtervelde, de Ligne- 
Batbancon, de Mettemich, d'Oyembrugge-Duras, de Stavele, de Thiennes de 
la Woestine, etc. (Voyez Diet, de la noblesse, in-4, t. VII. pp. 584, 587.) 



46 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

1. FRANCOIS-BERNARD-HENRI, Count de Hinniadal and of 
Crainheim, Lord of Betho, of Tonglaer, D'Oleye, de Woluwe-Saint- 
Pierre, Woluwe-Saint-Etienne and Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, was 
bom July 20, 1759. He made homage for the lordships on Aug. 
12, 1765. He died without issue in 182-. 

2. MARIE - ISABELLE - CHARLOTTE - ERNESTINE - ANTOI- 
NETTE, Coimtess de Hinnisdal and of Crainheim, baptized June 
5, 1755; was received as Canoness at d'Andeme May 12, 1771, 
and then became Lady of Croix Etoilee de Marie-Therese, and 
married Coimt de Coppis. 

3. THERESE - FERDINANDE - ISABELLE DE HINNISDAL, 

baptized on April 3, 1758; married, Nov. 20, 1781, Charles-Ignace- 
Philippe, Count of Thiennes, son of Pierre-Francois- Joseph, Count 
of Thiennes, Lord of Lombise, member of the Nobility of 
Hainault, and of Marie- Josephe-Charlotte-Gathonius de Holsbecke. 



HINSDALE TRAITS OF CHARACTER. 

By Mrs. Mary E. Truax. 

Some ten years ago, learning that Judge Sanford C. Hinsdale, 
of Denver, Colo., was investigating the Hinsdale family with a 
view to the publication of a '' History of the Hinsdale Family in 
America," the writer of this article began to look up her mother's 
branch, primarily to learn more of her immediate ancestors; also, 
to render some assistance to Judge Hinsdale, and incidentally to 
obtain proof of eligibility to become a Daughter of the American 
Revolution. She failed in the latter object, as record showed her 
grandfather was too young to be a Revolutionary soldier; three 
of his older brothers were, and the lady who in after years became 
her grandmother, near the close of the war was but a little girl 
of seven years. Her Hinsdale search has brought results of far 
more value to her than membership in the D. A. R., though that 
was greatly desired. It has by no means been confined to looking 
up descendants of her own branch. When entering upon genealog- 
ical research one has no conception of the amount of interest and 
enthusiasm that will be aroused and grow, and what lifelong friend- 
ships will be formed. From books printed and written, historical 
records of various kinds, correspondence with numerous descend- 
ants, photographs of those still living, and photographs of por- 
traits of those long since gone from the stage of action, the pedi- 
gree hunter finds resemblance not only in traits of character but 
in features. 

The Hinsdales are a family of strongly marked characteristics. 
Among these are independence, originality, perseverance, patriot- 
ism. Some branches have wit and humor well developed; others 
were and are noted for wonderful memories. They are a family 
of strong attachments for each other, clannish, have vigorous, 
manly natures, are self-reliant in thought and action, great read- 
ers and energetic workers. 

The first (Robert) who came to America, about 1630, early iden- 
tified himself with educational, church and town enterprises in 
Dedham, Medfield and Deerfield, Mass. The New England His- 
torical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 10, Page 49, gives "Med- 

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48 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

field's Contributions to Harvard College in 1678." It says: "This 
is a true Coppye of the subscription of the inhabitance of Medfield 
towards the building of the new CoUidge at Cambridg." Then 
follow seventy-four names; the fortieth is that of Gamaliell Hinsdell. 
Some of these subscriptions were paid in money, but most of them 
in "wheat and Endian Come" yet to be raised. In the meantime 
as " God hath seen it meet to turne the wheels of his good Providence 
toward us in letting loose ye Barbarous natives upon us that much 
of oiu- Towne hath been consumed, many lives and estates lost," 
Gamaliell Hinsdale and others "praye" for longer time in which 
to meet their obligations to Harvard College. 

One of the early Hinsdales was a signer to a petition for the first 
free school in Massachusetts. 

The opinion of the Hinsdale Family, as given by two disinter- 
ested authors is quoted. Dr. John Lord, LL. D., in his life of 
Emma Willard, published in 1873, page 18, says: "The mother 
of Mrs. Willard, who belonged to the Hinsdale Family, a second 
wife, and ten years younger than her husband, was practical, eco- 
nomical, industrious, sagacious, charitable, an admirable manager, 
a helpmeet, a type of those old-fashioned New England wives who 
believe in duties rather than rights, and who kept alive the fire on 
her domestic hearth by her loyalty and love. Amid her other 
labors, like the heroines of Homer, she sorted and carded wool, 
and the distaff was one soiu"ce of family prosperity. She was the 
mother of ten children and the stepmother of seven, all of whom 
lived together in harmony, dispensing a simple hospitality and 
shedding the radiance of contentment and joy upon the whole 
neighborhood." 

David W. Bartlett in his "American Agitators & Reformers," 
published in 1855, in giving briefly a sketch of Elihu Burritt, says: 
"The mother, Elizabeth Hinsdale, was remarkable for her many 
virtues. She was a woman of fine intellect, lofty courage, ardent 
piety, and brought up her children most admirably." 

Of his grandfather, the author says, " His maternal grandfather 
Hinsdale was a remarkable man, intrusted with town affairs, a 
great reader, and with only ordinary advantages possessed him- 
self of an extraordinary fund of knowledge. Burritt's brother in- 
herits an insatiable thirst after knowledge and facility in acquir- 
ing it, besides being extremely erudite. A sister and maternal 
nephew are also endowed with a similar power of memory and pas- 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 49 

sion for reading, as well as capability of storing their minds with 
knowledge. One of this learned family, I think it was Elihu's 
brother, literally killed himself by study, in which he progressed 
with astonishing rapidity. This wonderful love of learning and 
capability of retaining it will be found to have been handed down 
to the Hinsdales, and throughout the various branches as far as 
can be traced." 

The pioneer spirit, to some extent probably the outgrowth of 
Puritan restlessness, is a Hinsdale characteristic. Robert's de- 
scendants emigrated from Massachusetts to New Hampshire, Con- 
necticut, Vermont and New York; later to Michigan, Indiana, and 
Illinois, and later still to Kansas, Nebraska, Idaho, California, and 
the South. One of the first to subscribe for two copies of this 
History for years has been a resident of Lewiston, Idaho, going 
to that new country from Southern Indiana. 

During the past ten years the writer has corresponded with de- 
scendants residing in almost every State in the Union, and per- 
sonally is well acquainted with many of her grandfather's family. 
Early in the nineteenth century, two sisters and two brothers, chil- 
dren of her grandparents, came from Vermont to Michigan and 
Indiana, when the country was as much a wilderness as when the 
first Robert and his sons were establishing themselves in Massa- 
chusetts. The oldest son, Mitchell, came with four daughters and 
five sons, a sixth son being born in Michigan, and the younger, 
Myron, with four little daughters. One sister came to Indiana as 
a bride, and, a year later, the other as a teacher. The journey of 
the sons' families was made by boat through the Erie Canal from 
Buffalo to Detroit, and thence by teams, one of which was brought 
from Vermont. Most of the towns on the way were mere stop- 
ping places. At what is now the State's University town, Ann 
Arbor, as the "tavern keeper" lifted four little girls, one after the 
other, from the emigrant's wagon, he turned to the father and, 
using very emphatic language, asked, " What did you bring these 
four little girls to this country for?" 

The two brothers located on adjoining farms near Richland. 
Mitchell removed to Kalamazoo about 1838; Myron to Grand 
Rapids in 1835 or 1836. 

They were surrounded by Indians ; wolves made music by night, 
and fever and ague shook them by day. Quinine was as much 
in daily use as were salt and pepper. Two sons were added to 



50 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

M5Ton's family, the second being the second white child born in 
Grand Rapids. 

One of those four little girls had her first wrestle with Web- 
ster's spelling book in a school -house in Grand Rapids, built for 
a barn, the boards set up endwise, with boards for a floor laid down 
without matching, benches without backs, and so high from the 
floor that the little feet would dangle. The subject of ventilation 
did not vex school committees in that day. 

For three score years and more she has resided in that city, 
an intelligent and influential woman in church (Congregational) 
and benevolent work. She is a charter member of the first Wom- 
an's Club, some thirty years old, which club aided greatly in mak- 
ing of her a fine historian; and a charter member of what is now 
the " Union Benevolent Association Hospital and Training School 
for Nurses," with its valuable buildings and grounds. This insti- 
tution is the outgrowth of a woman's society of years ago, organ- 
ized to work for the needy poor of the city. 

Because of her good judgment and practical common-sense, 
when the new buildings were erected she was appointed one of the 
building committee. Through the entire Civil War she was in- 
defatigable in her work for the soldiers. The writer is indebted 
to her for many facts herein narrated. Few pieces of furniture 
were brought from Vermont, but among her priceless treasm-es 
are an old-fashioned combination bureau and sideboard and a 
small rocking chair, that would be coveted by any hunter of Colo- 
nial relics. She has a portrait of her maternal grandmother. 

When her father came from Vermont he brought with him an 
excellent set of surveyors' instruments, whose use he well under- 
stood, and his services as surveyor were in frequent demand among 
the early settlers, to run the quarter lines between the sections 
and mark the boundaries of the new farms. 

After coming to Grand Rapids, Mjrron Hinsdale identified him- 
self with many interests for the good of the community. His 
home, being a large house, which subsequently became a hotel, 
not only sheltered his own family, but its large dining-room served 
for Sabbath services, Sunday and day schools, singing schools, 
debating societies, masquerade parties, indeed, moral and religious 
entertainments of all kinds. The public meetings of the Grand 
Rapids Lyceum were held in this dining-room for years, and here 
was brought out the latent intellectual force and forensic ability 



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that became conspicuous on the platform, the stump, and the bar, 
years after, by that Uttle coterie of young men. This Lyceum had 
a vahiable library for that time, some of whose books are still in 
service in the city's present library, where now can be found many 
histories which tell of the Michigan Hinsdales and their influence 
for good. The First Congregational Church was organized in 
this dining room, first as a Presbyterian Church, but the Congre- 
gational element prevailing, it was soon changed to the Congre- 
gational form of government. At the celebration of the Lord's 
Supper, common plates served for the bread, and pitcher and 
tumblers for the wine. 

The summer of 1836 was an eventful one. The arrival of 
strangers, the rapid changes, the hurry to get comfortably housed 
before winter, the feverish excitement of speculation can be better 
understood by quoting from a letter from Mr. Hinsdale to a brother- 
in-law, dated April 23rd, 1836: "I have applied for five lots of 
pine land up Grand River, but there is such a press of business in 
the Land Office one cannot know under six or eight days whether 
or not he can get it, and if two men ask for the same land the same 
day, they must agree which shall have it, or it is set up at auction. 
There have been four hundred or five hundred people at Bronson 
for a week past, all waiting to get land. If I get the pine land it 
will cost about $2.25 per acre, and a great bargain at that. If land 
buyers increase when navigation opens, there will not be a good 
lot in the territory at Congress prices, and then I see no reason why 
land will not be worth $10.00 per acre." 

To show that the higher interests of education, morals and reli- 
gion were not neglected, quotation is made from another letter, 
dated Feb. 25th, 1837: "We have two schools in our house, the 
teacher of one being my sister, Mary Ann, who came from Vermont 
last fall. We have had from eight to ten boarders all winter, on 
the temperance plan in full, and have most of the good custom. 
Strangers from almost all parts of the union visit our place, and are 
much pleased. 

" Property has advanced one- third or more since you was here, so 
much I think people are crazy. Society has improved very much. 
A Presbyterian chm-ch was formed last October with 22 members 
and 10 added since, and we have as talented a society of young men 
as can be found in your state. Provision is very high. Cash plenty, 
most of it paid out for land. I have had more silver and gold in my 
house this winter than a pair of horses could draw." 



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The experience of the families of the two brothers was very 
similar. Indeed, the hardships and privations of all pioneers in 
settling a new country, are very much the same; the clearing of 
the forest, the struggle for a living, the enforced contentment with 
the bare necessities of life, all make men and women hardy and 
healthy, and really prepare them to enjoy life. 

But a few years elapsed before the majority of the twelve chil- 
dren of Aaron and Lucinda Mitchell Hinsdale were located in the 
west. Many instances could be given to show the absolute fear- 
lessness of the little girl, Lucinda Mitchell, who in later years became 
the mother of these four Hinsdale emigrants from Vermont, but 
one only will be given. A great-grandchild, Mrs. Wm. Hawley 
Smith of Peoria, 111., tells a good Revolutionary story of her great- 
grandmother. " After Gov. Jonas Galusha of Bennington, Vt., 
was stricken with paralysis and bed-ridden, his son, Jonas Jr., with 
his family, came to live with and care for the afflicted Governor. 
The youngest of Jonas Jr.'s family was my father, O. B. Galusha, 
and he often described the following scene which took place in his 
grandfather's room, when he was a young boy. Among those pres- 
ent was a visiting neighbor, my mother's grandmother, Lucinda 
Mitchell Hinsdale. The conversation turned to reminiscences of 
the Revolutionary War, and great-grandmother Hinsdale said — 
" My father had Quaker proclivities and was conscientiously op- 
posed to fighting, and went to Canada to avoid being conscripted in- 
to the army. Under these circumstances he naturally gained the 
reputation, which he did not deserve, of being a Tory." *' I well 
remember when I was a little girl of seven," she continued, " that 
I was at home alone for a short time while mother went to a neigh- 
bor's, and that a squad of Federal cavalry came to raid our prem- 
ises, because, as I found when I was older, my father was said to 
be a Tory. They started to drive away our little herd of cattle, and 
among them was one that had been given to me when a calf, and 
was my special pet and pride. When I saw her driven away with 
the rest, I ran to the big mortar where the rock salt was pounded to 
feed to the cattle, and begun to pound with all my might. The 
cattle became completely unmanageable and came back, expecting 
to be fed some salt. The soldiers came after them and scolded and 
stormed, and ordered me to stop, which I refused to do unless they 
would let me have my heifer. This they refused to do; so as soon 
as they were fairly started again, I began to pound, and the cattle 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 53 

came back as before; but still the angry soldiers refused to let me 
keep my heifer. The third time I waited till the cattle were in the 
middle of a small river that ran close to our house, and then I began 
to pound with might and main. The cattle wheeled in the water 
and swam back. By this time the captain was furious, and, pointing 
his gun at me, said, " If you don't stop that pounding, I'll shoot 
you," and I said, " Shoot away, I won't stop till you let me have 
my heifer." 

At this point of her story, my father said the old Governor 
raised himself in bed, something that he had not done in years and 
said, " Were you that little — devil I was going to say? I was that 
Captain; I've often wondered what you thought when I said I'd 
shoot you. What did you?" " Why, I just said to myself. He'll 
never shoot a little girl like me, and you know you wouldn't. You 
just let me pick out my heifer and then I let the rest go." " You 
got all the herd back the next day, didn't you?" Governor Galusha 
asked. " Yes, all but two that had been eaten," she replied. " My 
mother went over to the camp the next day and explained that 
father was not a Tory, and the officers returned all the cattle that 
were left." 

The writer with commendable pride does not hesitate to affirm 
that the Hinsdale female descendants are not one whit inferior to 
the men who bear the name, for all grace, refinement of character, 
intelligence and accomplishments of head and heart, though they 
bear other than the Hinsdale name. The educators of both sexes 
can be counted by the hundred, and rank from the kindergarten 
teacher to the professor in colleges and state universities. Such 
early educators as Emma Willard, Almira Phelps, and Nancy Hins- 
dale were pioneers in the higher education of women in New York 
and Massachusetts. Nancy Hinsdale established the first young 
ladies' school in Massachusetts, at Pittsfield, and was a teacher for 
years in connection with her cousin, Emma Willard, at Troy, N. Y. 
Another pen than mine will endorse the above statement. Hon. 
Chauncey M. Depew, in an address delivered at the dedication of 
Russell Sage Hall of the Emma Willard Female Seminary at Troy, 
N. Y., 1895, said of Mrs. Willard: " She was an apostle, an evangel 
of the higher education of women. She had the courage to undertake 
the task, and the genius to secure success. When there was naught 
but ridicule and denunciation for an enterprise which it was pre- 
dicted would break up the family and destroy the fireside, she set 



54 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

out to educate the girls who should dignify, adorn and elevate the 
home. She struggled for a quarter of a century before her efforts 
received recognition, and the country was aroused to the impor- 
tance of her mission, and the sentiment she propagated had material- 
ized into the great seminaries for women, which are now the ornament 
and hope of the period. Her influence did not stop here, it crossed 
the ocean; it broke down the prejudices and the conditions of the 
most conservative of nations; it created Girton and Newnham 
Colleges under the shadows of Oxford and Cambridge, and it earned 
for them and their students equal advantages in the curriculum of 
these historic seats of learning." 

Mrs. Lucinda Hinsdale Stone of Kalamazoo, Mich., a teacher 
from the age of eighteen until near the close of her life, aged eighty- 
six, was always an advocate for co-education, and for the higher 
education of woman, as well as for her elevation and advancement 
in every respect. It was largely through her influence, exerted for 
years before successful, that women were admitted into Michigan 
State University. For a more extended account of her life-work 
see a 400-page volume published in 1902, entitled " Lucinda Hins- 
dale Stone Reminiscences." An excellent picture of Nancy Hins- 
dale occupies a place in the Pittsfield Athenseum. One of Mrs. L. H. 
Stone can be seen in one of the halls at the Michigan Univer- 
sity. 

There is another Hinsdale woman whose early life gave Uttle 
promise of literary attainment or poetical development, but Phebe 
Hinsdale Brown will live as long as " I love to steal awhile away " 
is sung in our churches. The original nine stanzas differ materially 
from those found in our church hymnals. Rev. Edwin F.Hatfield, 
D. D., in a book on hymnology, "Poets of the Church," published 
in 1861, gives a very interesting sketch of her hfe, and says that she 
left a MS. autobiography that would make a book of probably 400 
pages, and also a MS. collection of her poems that would make a 
similar volume. Her son, Samuel Robbins Brown, was one of the 
first missionaries to Japan. 

Every business and profession has been and is represented by 
these Hinsdales, from that of the " Learned Blacksmith " and 
agriculturalist to the gowned minister and lawyer in the pulpit and 
on the bench. The family are most happy to own as a descendant, 
an ex- Vice President of the United States. 

In politics they have affiliated usually with the Whig and Re- 



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publican parties, and conspicuous among them have been many 
aboUtionists, both men and women. 

In reUgious belief the family largely represent the Congregational, 
Presbyterian, Baptist and Episcopalian denominations. 

Honesty and generosity are Hinsdale traits. Not many have 
amassed great wealth, and yet most are land-owners and are home- 
loving enough to abide for years, and often for generations, under 
their own "vine and fig tree." 

Pages should be given to Soldier Hinsdales. This pen cannot 
do the subject justice. Had not the brain and hand of Samuel 
Burritt Hinsdale of Woodbridge, N. J., been stilled in death in 
December, 1903, his would have been the one to give the long list 
of Hinsdales whose patriotism found them in every war in which 
our country has been engaged. The first Robert was a member 
of the Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company of Boston, and with 
three sons was killed at the battle of Bloody Brook. The various 
patriotic societies are well represented, or can be, by male and fe- 
male descendants of Revolutionary soldiers. 

The Civil War brought forth the younger generations. Samuel 
Burritt Hinsdale was but fourteen years old at the beginning of the 
war, and his patriotism prompted him to enlist as drummer boy, 
but because of his youth he was refused. At the age of seventeen, 
not being robust and strong, he failed to pass the proper examina- 
tions, and was again refused. His persistence and the influence of 
friends finally succeeded, and May 16, 1864, he became a member of 
Company H, 151st Regt. 111. Vols., with rank of Corporal, and he 
served one and one-half years. Though never wounded, that year 
and a half of exposure and hardship enfeebled his constitution for 
all the years that followed, and in 1903 he died, as much a martyr 
to his country as though slain in battle. He was a loyal member 
of the G. A. R., joining the organization in 1886, and holding im- 
portant positions till death. Among his friends he was regarded 
as an ardent patriot. 

One son of Mitchell Hinsdale lies in an unknown grave, having 
faUen at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain. 

One of the Myron Hinsdales served from 1861-65, being honorably 
discharged with the rank of Lieut.-Colonel. 

Three brothers belonging to an Indiana Regiment were in battle 
after battle, and went with Sherman on his memorable march to 
the sea. A volume could easily be written giving thrilling experi- 



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ences and hair-breadth escapes of these three brothers, who still 
live, residents respectively of Kansas, Nebraska, and Idaho. A 
story of one illustrates the clannish spirit. Neither brother had 
ever been to Vermont, but from parents had heard much of the 
New England Hinsdales. At Fayetteville, N. C, as the Union army 
was weakening the strength of the Confederates by destroying prop- 
erty by fire on the right and left. Col F. saw the sign " Hinsdale 
Bros." over a store door. The order was given not to fire that 
building. He entered: the conversation with the brothers con- 
vinced him that he and they were New England Hinsdale descend- 
ants, and that building was spared. Thirty years later there was 
a reunion in New York City of the Colonel and one of that North 
Carolina firm, and right royally was the Colonel entertained. 

In this connection the wife of a Hinsdale deserves mention. 
Some years ago a newspaper item that came under the writer's no- 
tice said that a Jane Hinsdale served as soldier's nurse through the 
Civil War, and received a pension. The clipping was sent to Judge 
Hinsdale, who wrote to the pension agent at Washington, D. C, 
for her record. Here it is: "Jane Hinsdale, Nurse, Medical De- 
partment U.S. Vols, is now a pensioner at the rate of twelve dollars 
per month, payable at the United States Pension Agency, Detroit, 
Michigan. The' pension was granted for service rendered as nurse 
in Second Mich. Vol. Infantry, of which her husband, Hiram H. 
Hinsdale, was a member, serving in Company D. Her services 
extended through the entire Civil War." Her name was Jane Sut- 
ton. Hiram H. Hinsdale was the son of Stephen and Maria Baker 
Hinsdale, who lived in Niagara County, N. Y. Mrs. Hinsdale Uved 
to an advanced age and died in Detroit, Mich.* 

Genealogical research is both history and biography combined; 
history of the times and biography of the people who made the 
times. It is fascinating work, but rarely remunerative to those 
most interested. The books that must be consulted would make 



Detroit, Mich., Nov. 23, 1900. 

*Mrs. Hiram Hinsdale, who distinguished herself by her heroism during 
the civil war, and who rendered valuable services to the government 
as a spy, died to-day at St. Mary's hospital, aged 94 years. Mrs. Hinsdale's 
war record is a remarkable one. It was by her aid that Mumsey's irregulars 
were captured and the robbers of the Connecticut mail run down. 

For a whole night she tended the wounded after the battle of Blue Ridge; 
she was with the Fourteenth New York when they charged the Black 
Horse at the same battle and drove them off. The government gave her $12 
a month pension. She died a charge upon charity. Mrs. Hinsdale was bom 



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a good sized library, to say nothing of the correspondence, the pleas- 
ant surprises, the odd revelations, the quaint old wills resurrected, 
the ancient family bibles that must be hunted up, the tombstone 
epitaphs copied; but it pays to learn from whence you come and 
who you are. 

in Steuben County, New York, in 1806; was married at the age of 14 and 
went to Michigan with her husband in 1840. Her husband, Hiram Hinsdale, 
enlisted in the Second Michigan Infantry, and when he marched off she fol- 
lowed him. They became separated, but were reunited later. Her husband 
died in 1894. 

Detroit, Mich., Nov. 24, 1900. 
Mrs. Hiram Hinsdale, who in the civil war rendered valuable service 
to the Government as a spy, died yesterday at St. Mary's Hospital, at 
the age of ninety-four. She was bom in Steuben County, New York, in 
1806, and came to Michigan with her husband in 1840. 



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HINSDALE GENEALOGY. 

1. DEACON ROBERT HINSDALE ', the emigrant and founder 
of the family in America, came to Dedham, Mass., probably 
from Dedham, County Essex, England, and was a pro- 
prietor of that town in 1637. He was made a member 
of the Board of Selectmen, July 18, 1637. His home was 
"on the Easternmost playne." On July 28, 1638, the 
town granted to him "six acres of meadowland besides 
the hill." He was one of the eight founders of Dedham 
first church, November 8, 1638. On March 13, 1639, he 
was admitted freeman of Massachusetts Colony. On 
May 17, 1639, he, with six others, was given "full 
power to contrive, execute and perform all the business 
and affau-s of this, our whole town." On June 21, 1639, 
he, with four others, was given full power to apportion to 
each settler his share of meadowland, and the "townsmen 
say they will stand fully satisfied without complaining or 
disquiet howsoever the said men shall order their said 
parcels of meadow." On December 31, 1639, he and 
seven others were chosen "for the ordering of the town 
affairs" for one year and were given full power. On July 
6, 1640, he was granted "one parcel of upland lying upon 
the backside of his furthermost parcel of meadow and be- 
twixt the said meadow and one parcel of coarse meadow 
lying on the other side thereof." On September 28, 1640, 
he was deputed to measure land for Francis Chickering. 
On October 22, 1640, he and two others were deputed "to 
set out to John Allin, our Pastor 120 acres of upland for a 
farm." On December 29, 1640, he was chosen, with two 
others, surveyor of highways for the following year. On 
January 1, 1645, he, with others, signed the petition for a 
free school at Dedham to be supported by tax. They 
agreed to raise the sum of twenty pounds per annum in 
support of the school. This is supposed to have been 
the first school in this country supported in this manner. 

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On January 1, 1645, he was chosen one of the seven Select- 
men for the following year. On February 4, 1645, he was 
granted five acres and three roods of woodland. The 
records show that he was a faithful attendant on town 
meetings, and he appears to have been a valuable and 
public-spirited member of the conmiunity. 

In 1645, he was chosen a member of the Ancient and 
Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, the oldest 
military organization in this country, founded March 13, 
1638, and which still proudly maintains its existence. 
Upon the rolls of its members are to be seen the names 
of men who in their day, through the entire history of 
Massachusetts, were foremost in peace and war, and 
who occupied the highest place in science, art and liter- 
ature, and in social, poUtical and military life. At no 
time could any but a distinguished citizen have become 
a member of this society. On November 14, 1649 he was 
appointed one of a committee of Dedham citizens to 
organize a new town which afterwards came to be 
Medfield, Mass. In 1651 the General Court of Massachu- 
setts Colony incorporated the town, the 41st in the colony, 
and named it Medfield. Robert Hinsdale was chosen one 
of its first Board of Selectmen and served six years. He 
was among the first thirteen who took up houselots at Med- 
field, and his homestead there was on what is now North 
Street. The original well is still in use. He built his 
house in Medfield in 1652. In 1659 he "purchased a bell 
and brought it up for the use of the town." Soon after, the 
town granted him forty-six acres of land near what is now 
Collin's Mill. He built a mill there which was burned by 
the Indians in 1676. He was active in organizing the 
first Medfield church. 

He had mortgaged his land in Medfield in 1656. On 
August 20, 1663, he and his wife Ann conveyed lands in 
Medfield to Jeremiah Tauke, citizen and clothworker of 
London, as security for the payment of certain sums. 
About 1667 he removed with his family to the Connecticut 
Valley, settling first at Hadley, Mass., where in 1672 he 
was released from military duty "on account of age and a 
sore leg." He was an original proprietor in the eight 
thousand acre grant made by the Dedham people at Deer- 



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field, Mass., then known as Pocumtuck, where he drew 
by lot in 1671, lot |31, the present site of the Willard 
House. He and his four sons were inhabitants of Deer- 
field, November 13, 1673. He was there deacon of the first 
church and one of the principal and most active citizens. 
He and his son Samuel, Sampson Frary, John Farrington, 
and Samuel Daniel were the only men of the original thirty- 
two Dedham proprietors of Pocumtuck who became actual 
settlers of Deerfield. The others sold out their rights. 

Deacon Robert Hinsdale and his three sons, Samuel, 
Barnabas and John, were slain in the ever memorable fight 
with the Indians at Muddy (afterwards called Bloody) 
Brook, near Deerfield, where from ambush some seven 
hundred Indians under King Philip attacked and killed 
nearly every one of the little band of whites, led by Cap- 
tain "Thomas Lathrop, about one hundred in number, 
September 18, 1675. By this slaughter eight women of 
Deerfield were made widows, one, the wife of the Cap- 
tain, and four, the wives of Robert and his three sons. 
All the slain were "buried in one dreadful grave." A 
corner-stone of a marble monument, twenty-six feet in 
height, was laid in memory of the slain, September 30, 
1835, on which occasion the Hon. Edward Everett delivered 
an impressive discourse, found among his published ora- 
tions. The monument was completed in August, 1838. 
The following is the inscription upon the tablet of the 
Monument: 

"On this ground, Capt. Thomas Lathrop and eighty men 
under his command, including eighteen teamsters from 
Deerfield, conveying stores from that town to Hadley, were 
ambushed by about seven hundred Indians and the Cap- 
tain and seventy-six men slain, September 18th, 1675. 
(Old style.)" 

The inventory of Robert Hinsdale's estate was taken 
October 22, 1676. His son Ephraim was surety for the 
widow Elizabeth. Deacon Robert Hinsdale married as 
his first wife, probably in England, Ann Woodwabd, daugh- 
ter of Peter Woodward of Dedham, by whom he had six 
sons and two daughters, probably all born in Dedham. 
She was a sensitive and timid woman, and fainted away 
on making profession of her faith before the church at Ded- 



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ham June 2, 1639. The Puritan method of admission to 
church membership was by pubhc profession of faith and 
confession of sin before the congregation, an ordeal trying 
to the timid and now fortunately obsolete. The church 
records relate: "The wife of our brother Hinsdale 
being fearful and not able to speak in publike, but faint- 
ing away ther, coming to chm-ch in private gave good 
satisfaction; which being publickly testified and declared, 
and she confirming the same relation to be so, was received." 
She died June 4, 1666, and he married, second, about 1668, 
Elizabeth, widow of John Hawks of Hadley, by whom he 
had no issue. She was a woman of different mold from 
Ann. The union did not prove a happy one and they soon 
parted. At the court held March 30, 1674, they were "pre- 
sented for living assunder contrary to law," also charged 
"with lacivious and wanton carrage;" on the examination 
she refused to answer and appears to have got off clear; 
he said he "did it as being her head and having the rule 
of her in the Pointe and that he did it for her correction 
of her disorder towards him." The court held he had 
"broTien the Perfect rule of divine law Mai. 2: 16; Matt. 
19: 6; and 1 Peter 3:7 & the law of the Colony in the 
intent if not in the letter in the first living assunder" and 
ordered him "whipped ten stripes on the naked body" and 
imposed a fine for which his sons became responsible and 
which the court refused to remit after his tragic death. 
On June 25, 1683, his widow Elizabeth married Thomas 
Dibble of Windsor, Conn., and died September 25, 1689. 

Children : 

By his first wife, Ann Woodward. 

2. i. ELIZABETH, married James Rising. 

3. ii. BARNABAS, born Nov. 13, 1639; married Sarah White. 

4. iii. SAMUEL, born about 1641-2; married Mehitabel Johnson. 

5. iv. GAMALIEL, born Mar. 5, 1642-3; married Rachel Martin. 

6. V. MARY, born Feb. 14, 1644; married Daniel Weld. 

7. vi. EXPERIENCE, born Jan. 23, 1646; married Mary Hawks. 

8. vii. JOHN, born Jan. 27, 1647-8; married. 

9. viii. EPHRAIM, born Sept. 26, 1650; married Mehitabel 

Plympton. 

2. ELIZABETH HINSDALE^ (Robert^, daughter of Deacon 
Robert Hinsdale and his first wife, Ann Woodward, was 



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married at Boston, Mass., July 7, 1657, by Governor Endi- 
cott, to James Rising, of Boston, who at the age of eighteen 
years, and in the year 1635, sailed for the Bermudas from 
London, Eng.; was at Harvard College in 1646; removed to 
the Bermudas ; returned to Salem, Mass. ; and in a few years 
removed to Windsor, Conn., where he was admitted an 
inhabitant March 11, 1668. Elizabeth died at Windsor, 
August 11, 1669. He married, second, August 13, 1673, 
widow Martha Bartlett. He kept the Rivulet Ferry at 
Windsor. In 1679 he removed to Suffield, Mass., where 
he died September 11, 1688. He was the only one of that 
name among the early New England settlers, and prob- 
ably ancestor of all of that name in this country. He 
had two children by his first wife, perhaps others. 

Children: 

10. i. JAMES, died 1690, without issue. 

11. ii. JOHN, married 1684; died 1720. 

BARNABAS HINSDALE ' (Robert^, son of Deacon Robert 
Hinsdale and his first wife, Ann Woodward, born November 
13, 1639, probably at Dedham, Mass.; baptized November 
17, 1639; married, October 15, 1666, Sarah White, daugh- 
ter of Elder John White of Hartford, Conn., and widow of 
Stephen Taylor of Hatfield, Mass. He went with his 
father to Hadley, Mass., and lived for several years at Hat- 
field. He was of Deerfield, Mass., March 27, 1674, when 
he sold out his Hadley homestead. He lived on lot nine 
in Deerfield, and also owned lot fifteen which was sold by 
his heirs in 1707 to Samuel Carter. On May 3, 1667, he, 
with twenty-four other citizens of Hatfield joined in a pe- 
tition to the General Court of Massachusetts Colony to 
have a church established at Hatfield, "on the west side of 
the river, commonly called by the name of the Connec- 
ticut River, where we, for the most part, have lived about 
six years, and have attended on God's ordinances on the 
other side of the river at the appointed seasons that we 
could or durst to pass over the river, the passing being 
very difficult and dangerous, both in summer and winter, 
which thing hath proved, and is, an oppressive burden for 
us to bear, which if by any lawful means, it may be avoided, 
we should be glad and thankful to this Honored Court to 



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ease us therein, conceiving it to be a palpable breach of the 
Sabbath," etc. This petition was granted and they were 
allowed a church. Barnabas Hinsdale was killed with 
Lathrop at Bloody Brook, September 18, 1675. His widow 
Sarah married, third, February 3, 1679, Walter Hickson, 
and died August 10, 1702. 

Children : 

12. i. BARNABAS, born Feb. 20, 1668; married Martha Smith. 

13. ii. SARAH, married Deacon Samuel Hall. 

14. iii. ELIZABETH, born Oct. 29, 1671; died Mar. 8, 1672. 

15. iv. ISAAC, bom Sept. 15, 1673; married Lydia Loomia. 

16. V. MARY, born Mar. 27, 1676; posthumous child; married 

Thomas Hayward. 

4. SAMUEL HINSDALE ' (Robert^ , son of Deacon Robert Hins- 
dale and his first wife, Ann Woodward, born about 1641-2 
in Dedham, married October 31, 1660, Mehitabel Johnson, 
born 1644; baptized March 29, 1646; died August 4, 1689; 
daughter of Humphrey Johnson of Roxbury, Mass., and 
Ellen Cheney, his wife. Samuel Hinsdale was killed with 
Lathrop at Bloody Brook, September 18, 1675. He re- 
moved with his father from Dedham to Medfield; married 
at seventeen, and soon after becoming of age, joined the 
settlers at Hadley. In 1664, he, with forty-four other citi- 
zens of Medfield, signed the now famous Medfield Memo- 
rial, of which the following is a copy: "To the Honored 
General Court of Massachusetts Colonie assembled on the 
19th day of the 8th month 1664, the humble Repre- 
sentation of the inhabitants of Medfield. Forasmuch as 
we have heard that there have been Representations 
made unto his Majestie concerninge divissions among us 
& dissatisfaction about the present Government of this 
Colonie. Wee whose names are Underwritten the Inhabi- 
tants & householders of the Towne above mentioned, do 
Hereby testify our uanimous Satisfaction in adheringe to 
the present Government, so long & orderly established & 
our earnest of the Continuance thereof, and of all the Liber- 
ties pertaininge thereunto wch are contained in the Charter 
Graunted by King James and King Charles the First of 
famous Memorie. Under the Encouragement & Security of 
which Charter, wee or our Fathers ventured over the Ocean 



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into this Wilderness through great Hazzards, Charges & 
Difficulties. And we humblie desire that our Honored 
Generall Court would addresse themselves by humble Peti- 
tion to his Majestie for his Royall favor in the continance 
of the present establishment, and of all the Priviledges 
thereof; and that wee may not be subjected to the Arbi- 
trary power of any who are not Chosen by the People ac- 
cordinge to there Patent; so earnestly begging ye sweete 
presence and blessing of God on all your faithful endeavors 
Wee shall rest full obedience to support the present Gov- 
ernment with our persons and estates. 
Yours in all humble & faith." 

He invested largely in the Dedham grant of 8,000 acres 
at Pocumtuck, where he was the first settler. The town 
records of Dedham, under date of May 18, 1669, contain 
the following: 

"Samuel Hinsdale of Hadley in the County of Ham- 
shier having purchased some property in Pocumtuck in 
the land granted and laid out to the inhabitants of Ded- 
ham, and made improvement by ploughing land there, 
came this day to the selectmen and gave account of the 
reasons of his so doing and demanded the laying out of the 
rights he had so purchased of one of the inhabitants of Ded- 
ham, that he might settle himself upon it, and proceed in 
improvement thereof for his own supply, or if it could 
not be yet laid out, that then some small parcel of up- 
land might be granted and laid out to build a house upon. 
To which we answer that we see not cause to forbid him, 
seeing himself is content to bear the venture of the place 
where he make improvement; but it not being in our power 
to do what he demands herein, we think meet to do what 
in us Ues to move the proprietors to promote the laying out 
each inhabitant's right there, and to that end, that the lots 
may be prepared and drawn, that some better rule may 
be had for every proprietor to know where about his own 
interest lies, and that in the first opportunity." 

In the spring of 1669, his plowshare first turned up the 
virgin soil of Pocumtuck. The town was surveyed and 
the land divided in 1671. In 1672 he petitioned the town 
of Dedham to appoint a Committee of suitable persons to 



66 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

regulate the affairs of the new settlement, and in 1673 the 
General Court, "in answer to the petition of Samuel Hins- 
dale and others, allow the petitioners the liberty of a town- 
ship," and granted such an addition "as that the whole 
shall be seven miles square," and "do further empower 
Samuel Hinsdale with five men of Hatfield and Hadley, a 
committee to admit inhabitants, grant lands and order all 
their prudential affairs, until they shall be in a capacity 
to manage their own affairs." 

During the two ensuing years the committee was not idle. 
Lands were granted, claims adjusted, a church founded, 
and, in execution of one of the provisions of the General 
Court in its grant, "an able orthodox minister" in the per- 
son of Rev. Samuel Mather was settled in the infant town, 
now known as Deerfield. Immediately preceding his death 
in 1675, he lived on lot 14 in Deerfield. In 1677, on peti- 
tion of his widow, the Court gave her this lot for her own. 
This same year she married, second, John Root, who was 
killed by the Indians September 19, 1677, while preparing 
a house for his new wife on this lot. After his death it 
was again confirmed to her. She married, third, Deacon 
John Coleman of Hatfield, Mass. She died August 4, 1689. 
Samuel Hinsdale also owned lots 35, 36, 40, 42 and 43 in 
Deerfield. In 1670, he owned one-twelfth part of the entire 
8,000 acre grant. His personal estate of 45 pounds was 
"given his widow to bring up their children." Samuel 
Hinsdale was one of the most prominent and energetic 
citizens of Deerfield. His son Mehuman was the first white 
child born in the territory of Pocumtuck. 

Children : 

17. i. MEHITABEL, born Oct. 18, 1663; married Sergeant Obadiah 

Dickinson. 

18. ii. MARY, bom July 22, 1665; married Deacon Thomas Sheldon. 

19. iii. \AJSrN, born Feb. 22, 1666-7; married Martin Kellogg. 

20. iv. SARAH, bom at Hadley; married Samuel Janes. 

21. V. SAMUEL, born at Hadley; married Susannah Rock wood. 

22. vi. MEHUMAN, born 1673; married Mary Rider. 

23. vii. JOHN, died unmarried in 1705. 

5. GAMALIEL HINSDALE' (Robert^, son of Deacon Robert 
Hinsdale and his first wife, Ann Woodward, born in Ded- 
ham, March 5, 1642-3; baptized March 13, 1642-3; married 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 67 

in 1672, Rachel Martin, who died in 1679. He died at 
Medfield, Mass., in 1689. In Medfield's Contribution to 
Harvard College in 1678, a portion of the original manu- 
script reads as follows: — "This is a true coppye of the 
subscription of the inhabitance of Med Field towards 
building of the new CoUidg at Cambridg: Gamaliell 
Hinsdale, 2 Bushells of Endien Corne." There were sixty- 
three contributors and the entire contribution was "17 
Bushells of Endien Corne and 1 BusheU of Wheat." 

Child : 

24. i. JOHN, died young. 

6. MARY HINSDALE ' (Robert^, daughter of Deacon Robert 

Hinsdale and his first wife, Ann Woodward, born in Ded- 
ham, February 14, 1644; baptized February 25, 1644; 
married Jime 8, 1664; Daniel Weld, born September 25, 
1642, died December 16, 1699. He was the first church 
recorder of Medfield ; afterwards removed to the Connecticut 
Valley; was of Deerfield in 1673; settled there on lot 23. 
He was called "Mr." and may have been a ruling elder be- 
fore the advent of Mr. Mather. 

Children : 

25. i. JOHN, bom Nov. 29, 1665. 

26. ii. MARY, bom Mar. 30, 1667; married, first, July 3, 1701, 

David Alexander; he was killed 1704; she was captured, 
but redeemed; she married, second, Apr. 18, 1707, Samuel 
Smead; third, Nov. 28, 1734, Joseph Younglove. 

27. iii. MEHITABEL, born May 19, 1669. 

28. iv. ANNA, bom May 17, 1672; married Nov. 22, 1699, John 

Smead. 

29. V. DANIEL, bom 1680; married about 1712, Mary Warriner, 

and had four children. 

7. EXPERIENCE HINSDALE^ (Robert'), son of Deacon 

Robert Hinsdale and his first wife, Ann Woodward, born 
January 23, 1646; baptized February 8, 1646; married 
October 10, 1672, Mary Hawks, daughter of John Hawks. 
He was a settler in Deerfield in 1673; was a guide for 
Captain Turner, and was killed by the Indians in the 
attack on Peskeompskut, May 19, 1676. This was known 
as the "Falls Fight," and occurred at what was afterwards 
known as "Turner's Falls." or Bernardstown, Mass. In 



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the settlement of his estate, June 6, 1676, "2 daughters," 
are mentioned ; only one is certainly known. His personal 
estate was 39 pounds 6 shillings and 6 pence, land not in- 
ventoried. His widow married, second, about 1678, John 
Evans, who settled in Deer field. 

Children : 

30. i. ELIZABETH, married John Cornwall. 

31. ii. Daughter. 

8. JOHN HINSDALE ' (Robert'), son of Deacon Robert Hins- 

dale and his first wife, Ann Woodward, born January 27, 
1647-8; baptized April 16,1648; was killed with La throp 
at Bloody Brook, September 18, 1675. He left a family 
of which little is known. "The heirs of John Hinsdale" 
are mentioned in land grants, 1687-93. Among them 
John Hinsdale, who died without issue in 1705, left "1 
Brother and 4 Sisters." These may have been the children 
of John. Thomas Sheldon was administrator. 

9. EPHRAIM HINSDALE^ (Robert^), son of Deacon Robert 

Hinsdale and his first wife, Ann Woodward, born Sep- 
tember 26, 1650; baptized October 27, 1650; married, 
September 28, 1676, Mehitabel Plympton, daughter of 
Sergeant John Plympton. Ephraim died Aug. 20, 1681. 
He was a settler in Deerfield in 1673, but did not return 
after King Philip's war, but settled in Hatfield, Mass. His 
widow Mehitabel, married, second, July 21, 1691, Joseph 
Cheney of Medfield, born in Roxbury, Mass., June 6, 1647; 
died September 16, 1704. She married, third, December 
12, 1717, Jonathan Adams of Medway. Sergeant John 
Plympton, the father of Mehitabel, was burned at the 
stake by the Indians in 1677. His wife was Jane Dummer. 
Ephraim Hinsdale with fifty-nine others took the oath 
of allegiance at Hatfield, February 8, 1678. He alone of 
all the sons of Robert, survived King Philip's War. 

Children : 

32. i. JOHN, bom Aug. 7, 1677. 

33. ii. EXPERIENCE, bom July, 1679; married 1704, Nathaniel 

Clark of Medfield. 

34. iii. MEHITABEL, bom 1681; married Dec. 30, 1706, Nathaniel 

Wight of Medfield. 



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11. JOHN RISING » (EUzabeth Hinsdale^ Robert^), second son 

of James Rising and his first wife, Elizabeth Hinsdale, mar- 
ried in 1684, and died in 1720. He had seven sons and four 
daughters. The names of the daughters are unknown. 

Children : 

35. i. JOHN. 

36. ii. JAMES. 

37. iii. JOSIAH. 

38. iv. JONATHAN. 

39. V. JOSEPH. 

40. vi. AARON. 

41. vii. MOSES. 

12. BARNABAS HINSDALE, JR.^ (Barnabas^ Robert'), son 

of Barnabas Hinsdale and Sarah White, his wife, born at 
Hatfield, Mass, February 20, 1668, married November 9, 
1693, Martha Smith, daughter of Joseph Smith of Hart- 
ford, Conn. He was admitted an inhabitant of Hartford 
in 1693, and died there of the "great sickness," January 
25, 1725, aged 56. His widow died December, 1738, aged 
68. Barnabas Hinsdale, Jr., was an original proprietor of 
lands at Harwinton in western Connecticut. His grave is 
in the Centre Cemetery, back of the First Church, Hart- 
ford. A stone marks the date of his death and age. 

Children : 

42. i, BARNABAS, bom Aug. 28, 1694; married June 17, 1725, 

Hannah Skinner; settled in Tolland, Conn.; on May 11, 
1719, the trustees of the town of Tolland conveyed by deed 
the north part of Tolland to fifty-one persons, of whom 
Barnabas Hinsdale was one; he died at ToUand Jan. 24, 
1728, aged 33 years. 

43. ii. MARTHA, born Feb. 17, 1696; baptized at South Church, 

Hartford, Feb. 23, 1696; died Apr. 15, 1761; married 
Nov. 9, 1736, Thomas Bull of Harwinton, Conn. 

44. iii. JACOB, bom July 4, 1698; married Hannah Seymour. 

45. iv, SARAH, bom July 22, 1700; married her second cousin, 

Nathaniel White. 

46. V. ELIZABETH, born Jan. 9, 1702; married Apr. 4, 1728, 

Jacob Benton of Harwinton, Conn. 

47. vi. MARY, bom July 13, 1704; married Mar. 30, 1738, James 

Skinner, Jr. 

48. vii. JOHN, (Captain), bom Aug. 13, 1706; married Eliza- 

beth Cole. 



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49. viii. DANIEL, (Deacon), born May 15, 1708; married 

Catherine Curtis. 

50. ix. AMOS, bom at Hartford, Aug. 24, 1710; married Experience. 

13. SARAH HINSDALE^ (Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter of 
Barnabas Hinsdale and Sarah White, his wife, married Jan- 
ruary 8, 1691, Deacon Samuel Hall, of East Middletown, 
Conn. He died March 6, 1740, aged 76 years. She died 
between 1716 and 1722. They Uved at what is now Chat- 
ham, Conn. 

Children : 

51. i. SARAH, born May 16, 1692; died Dec. 16, 1712. 

52. ii. ELIZABETH, bom Aug. 26, 1694; married Steven Stocking. 

53. iii. SAMUEL, born Mar. 28, 1697; died Feb. 22, 1713. 

54. iv. JOHN, born Aug. 19, 1699; died Jan. 3, 1767. 

55. V. MERCY, born Nov. 13, 1704; died Nov. 10, 1712. 

56. vi. THOMAS, bom Oct. 15, 1707; married Margaret Hurlburt. 

57. vii. ISAAC, born May 2, 1709. 

15. ISAAC HINSDALE ' (Barnabas^ Robert'), son of Barnabas 
Hinsdale and Sarah White, his wife, born September 15, 
1673; died at West Hartford, Conn., March 1, 1739, aged 
65. He married, January 6, 1714-5, Lydia Loomis, born 
February 17, 1687-8, daughter of Joseph Loomis of East 
Windsor, Conn., and Lydia Drake, his wife.* Isaac Hins- 
dale settled in West Hartford, Conn., in 1697, and died 
there. 

* JOSEPH LOOMIS,' probably born about 1590, was a woolen-draper in 
Braintree, Essex County, England, and sailed from London, England, April 
11, 1638, in the ship "Susan and Ellen." He married at Shalford, County 
Essex (Parish Register of Shalford), June 30, 1614, Mary White, who was 
baptized at Shalford (Parish Register of Shalford), August 24, 1590, daughter 
of Robert White and Bridgett AUgar, his wife, who were married (Parish Reg- 
ister of Shalford), June 24, 1585. Bridgett Allgar was the daughter of Wil- 
liam AUgar, and was baptized (Parish Register of Shalford), May 11, 1562. 
Joseph Loomis died at Windsor, Connecticut, November 25, 1658, his wife 
having already died, August 23, 1652. (N. E. His. & Gen. Reg., Vol. 55, pp. 
22-31.). Their son 

?'•] JOSEPH LOOMIS,^ bom in England about 1616, died at Windsor, Conn., 
June 26, 1687. He married Sarah Hill, who died Aug. 23, 1653. He was a 
member of the Windsor Troop of Horse in 1676 in King Philip's War. (Bodge, 
p. 468; StUes' Windsor, I., 221, II., 436; Loomis Family, 27, 30,). They had 

JOSEPH LOOMIS,^ who was born July 15, 1649, and died Feb. 26, 1715. 
He married, April 10, 1681, Lydia Drake, who was born January 26, 1662, 
and died May 7, 1702, daughter of John Drake of Windsor. He removed to 
East Windsor, Conn., in 1700, where he died. Their fourth child was 

LYDIA LOOMIS,* who married Isaac Hinsdale. 



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Children : 

58. i. LYDIA, born Dec. 6, 1717; baptized at South Church, Hart- 

ford, Dec. 8, 1717. 

59. ii. ISAAC, born June 8, 1719; married. 

60. iii. JOSEPH, born Aug. 9, 1720; married Elizabeth Kellogg. 

61. iv. JONATHAN, born Mar. 17, 1724; married Sarah Bernard. 

16. MARY HINSDALE ' (Barnabas^ Robert'), posthumous child 

of Barnabas Hinsdale and Sarah White, his wife, born 
March 27, 1676; married June 29, 1699, Thomas Hay- 
ward. 

Child: 

62. i. EXPERIENCE, bom June 14, 1700. 

17. MEHITABEL HINSDALE ' (SamueP Robert^, daughter of 

Samuel Hinsdale and Mehitabel Johnson, his wife, born at 
Medfield, October 18, 1663; married Sergeant Obadiah 
Dickinson, born at Wethersfield, Conn., April 15, 1641, 
and died there June 10, 1698; the sixth child of Nathaniel 
and Anna Dickinson. His house was burned by the In- 
dians September 19, 1677, his wife wounded, and he and 
one child were captiu-ed and taken to Canada, whence 
he returned the next year. Their home was at Hat- 
field, Mass. The renowned Rev. Jonathan Dickinson, 
the First President of Princeton College, was a nephew of 
Obadiah Dickinson. 

Children : 

63. i. SARAH. 

64. ii. NOADIAH, bom at Wethersfield, Conn., Aug. 2, 1694. 

65. iii. MEHITABEL, bom at Wethersfield, June 16, 1696; married 

Nathaniel Frary. 

18. MARY HINSDALE^ (SamueP Robert'), daughter of Sam- 

uel Hinsdale and Mehitabel Johnson, his wife, born at Med- 
field, July 22, 1665; died at Northampton, September, 
1738; married 1685, Deacon Thomas Sheldon, the fourth 
child of Isaac Sheldon and Mary Woodward, his wife, born 
at Northampton, August 6, 1661; died there, June 7, 1725. 
He was deacon of the church at Northampton from 1702 
until his death. He presented the church with a commun- 
ion service of massive silver, still in use. 



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Children, all born at Northampton, Mass. : 

66. i. THOMAS, bom June, 1688; settled in Suffield. 

67. ii. MARY, bom July 26, 1690; married June 19, 1708, Samuel 

Parsons. 

68. iii. REBECCA, bom 1693; died 1703. 

69. iv. JOSIAH, bom December, 1695; married Anne Stanley. 

70. V. BENJAMIN, bom 1697; married Mary Strong. 

71. vi. RACHEL, bom Feb. 22, 1701; married, May 19, 1718, 

John Pomeroy. 

72. vii. JEMIMA, bom May 31, 1702; married, Nov. 3, 1720, 

Samuel Williams. 

73. viii. ELISHA, bom Sept. 2, 1709; graduated at Yale College, 

1730; married Elizabeth Ely, 

19. ANN HINSDALE^ (SamueP Robert'), daughter of Samuel 
Hinsdale and Mehitabel Johnson, his wife, born at Hadley, 
February 22, 1666-7; married, December 10, 1684, Martin 
Kellogg, born 1658, son of Lieutenant Joseph and Joanna 
Kellogg, of Hadley.* Ann Hinsdale died July 19, 1689, aged 
23 years. Martm Kellogg settled at Deerfield. On Feb. 29, 
1704, he and his five children were captured by the French 
and Indians and taken to Canada. All returned except 
his daughter Joanna, who married an Indian chief. The 
others became noted official interpreters of the French and 
Indian languages in the old French War. After his return 
from Canada, he went to Suffield, Conn., where he died. 
Martin and Ann had two children, of whom the eldest, 
Martin, became a very famous interpreter and scout in the 
service of the Government. In 1715, Martin, Sr., relates in 
a petition to the General Court the "hardships of a long 
captivity, from which by a dangerous adventure he escaped 
and has since been in the service," and the Court voted 
him ten pounds "in consideration of his imcommon bravery 
and suffering in the service." 

Children : 

74. i. MARTIN, bom Oct. 26, 1686; married Dorothy Chester. 

75. ii. ANNA, bom July 14, 1689; married Lieutenant Joseph 

Severance. 

♦LIEUTENANT JOSEPH KELLOGG,' weaver, of Fannington, Conn., m 
1651, joined the church there, October 9, 1653. He removed to Boston, Mass., 
in 1659, and there purchased a homestead. He was a weaver by trade. He 
removed to Hadley, Mass., in 1661, where he settled permanently. He was 
a famous Indian fighter, and a man of much prominence in Hadley. In 1661 
the town of Hadley made an agreement with Joseph KeUogg to keep a ferry 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 73 

20. SARAH HINSDALE' (SamueP Robert^, daughter of Sam- 

uel Hinsdale and Mehitabel Johnson, his wife, born at 
Hadley, date unknown; married, 1692, Samuel Janes, of 
Northampton. She with her husband and three children 
were murdered by the French and Indians in their attack 
on Pasconmok, an outlying hamlet of Northampton, May 
13, 1704. The children killed were Obadiah, aged five 
years; Ebenezer, aged three years; and Sarah, aged one 
year. In this attack thirty-seven persons were captured, 
and all, save five or six, inhumanly slaughtered, being 
knocked in the head by the Indians. 

21. SAMUEL HINSDALE, JR.' (SamueP Robert^, son of Sam- 

uel Hinsdale and Mehitabel Johnson, his wife, born at 
Hadley, was a tanner at Medford. He married Susannah 
RocKwooD, daughter of Deacon Samuel Rockwood. He 
died at Shelburne in 1694. 



22. LIEUTENANT MEHUMAN HINSDALE ' (SamueP Rob- 
ert'), son of Samuel Hinsdale and Mehitabel Johnson, his 
wife, born at Pocumtuck, afterwards Deerfield, Mass., in 
1673, the first white child born there; married Mary Rider, 
born May 28, 1680, the daughter of William and Hannah 
Rider of Shelburne. He died May 9, 1736, aged 63 years. 
His grave is in the old cemetery at Deerfield, and the inscrip- 
tion on the stone is as follows : — " Here lies buried the body 

between Hadley and Northampton, and this was renewed in 1675 and 1687; 
and he was authorized to entertain strangers. He built a house on a lot which 
the town had reserved as a " ferry lot." Lieutenant Joseph Kellogg was suc- 
ceeded as ferryman successively by his son John and grandson James; in 1758 
a daughter of the latter married Stephen Goodman, who succeeded to the 
business, and from whom the ferry received the name "Goodman's Ferry." 
Lieutenant Joseph Kellogg served in King Philip's War. At the "Falls 
Fight," May 18, 1676, at Turner's Falls, three miles above Greenfield, Mass., 
he was sergeant in Captain William Turner's Company. In 1678 he was 
elected ensign, and in 1679 lieutenant. He married, first, in 1650, Joanna, by 
whom he had Elizabeth, Joseph, Nathaniel, John, Martin, Edward, Samuel, 
Joanna and Sarah. His wife Joanna died September 14, 1666. On May 9, 
1667, he married Abigail Terry, daughter of Stephen Terry of Windsor and 
Simsbury, Conn., who was living as late as 1714. By her he had Stephen, 
Nathaniel, Abigail, Eliza, Prudence, Ebenezer, Jonathan, Daniel, Joseph, 
Daniel and Ephraim. He died at Hadley about 1707. His will was dated 
1707. He lies buried about five miles from Amherst. 

MARTIN KELLOGG.^* son of Lieutenant Joseph Kellogg, and his first 
wife, Joanna, bom 1658, married Ann Hinsdale.^ 



74 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

of Lieut. Mahuman Hinsdale, died May ye 9 — 1736, in 
the 63rd year of his age — who was the first male child 
born in this place, and was twice captivated by the Indian 
Salvages. Matt. 5 : 7. Blessed are the merciful for they 
shall obtain mercy." He settled on lot 14 in Deer field. 
He, with his wife Mary, were captured, February 29, 1704, 
and their only child killed. They were taken to Canada 
whence they returned in August, 1706. April 11, 1709, 
while driving his ox-team, loaded with apple-trees from 
Northampton, he was surprised by the Indians and cap- 
tured. His team was not molested, but left standing in the 
road. The Indians took him to Chambler, Canada, m eleven 
days and a half. He suffered much from imprisonment, 
being obliged to run the gauntlet, etc. At last he was taken 
from the Indians, sent to France, and after an absence of 
three and a half years, found his way back to his family, 
October 12, 1712. He was a prominent man in town affairs, 
and left a large landed property. He owned four lots 
on the street in Deerfield; 175 acres of meadow land; 750 
acres on East Mountain; 650 acres at Long Hill; 1,194 acres 
mainly in what is now Gill, and 2,700 acres in what is now 
Shelburne, being about 5,600 acres in all. He owned in ad- 
dition more than one-eighth of all the undivided land 
which belonged to the "Proprietors of Pocumtuck." His 
widow Mary married, second, George Beal, and died a 
widow at Hinsdale, N. H., January 7, 1763, aged 83 years. 

Children : 

76. i. MARY, born Sept. 22, 1699; died Nov. 20, 1699. 

77. ii. SAMUEL, bom Nov. 12, 1702; kiUed by the Indians, Feb. 

29, 1704. 

78. iii. EBENEZER, (Colonel), born between May 30 and Aug, 

4, 1706, at sea; married Abigail WUIiams. 

79. iv. SAMUEL, born Apr. 24, 1708; married three times. 

80. V. JOHN, born Oct. 9, 1713; married Hannah Arms. 

30. ELIZABETH HINSDALE ' (Experience^ Robert'), daughter 
of Experience Hinsdale and Mary Hawks, his wife, married 
September 19, 1695, John Cornwall, of Middletown, 
Conn. She died March 2, 1698. 

Child: 

81. i. ELIZABETH, bom Aug. 21, 1696; married Jacob Dowd. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 75 

44. CAPTAIN JACOB HINSDALE^ (Barnabas^ Barnabas^ 

Robert*), son of Barnabas Hinsdale, Jr. and Martha Smith, 
his wife, born July 4, 1698; baptized at South Church, 
Hartford, Conn., July 10, 1698; joined the Church at Hart- 
ford in 1725. He married, July 8, 1731, Hannah Seymour. 
They settled in Harwinton, Conn., on lands inherited from 
his father. He was a Captain and served in the French 
war. He was a prominent and useful man, serving as 
selectman, and as a member of the Legislature. 

Children : 

82. i. JACOB, born 1734, probably at Hartford; married twice. 

83. ii. HANNAH, born at Harwinton, Feb. 27, 1736; married 

WiUiam Cook. 

84. iii. LOIS, born Feb. 27, 1737. 

85. iv. STEPHEN, born Nov. 16, 1738; died Nov. 7, 1741. 

86. V. EZRA, (Sergeant), born Jan. 5, 1741; married Sarah 

Hopkins. 

87. vi. STEPHEN, born Mar. 22, 1743; married Rhoda Judd. 

88. \di. SAMUEL, born Mar. 22, 1743. 

89. viii. GEORGE, born Apr. 15, 1745; married Phebe Allen. 

90. ix. SARAH, bom Mar. 1, 1747. 

45. SARAH HINSDALE ' (Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert'), daugh- 

ter of Barnabas Hinsdale, Jr. and Martha Smith, his wife, 
born July 22, 1700; baptized at South Church, Hartford, 
July 28, 1700; married July 29, 1725, Nathaniel White, 
her second cousin. Nathaniel White died in 1747, aged 53. 

Children : 

91. i. ELIZABETH, bom Aug. 28, 1726; married, May 13, 1756, 

Amos Benton of Harwinton, Conn.; and died Aug. 17, 
1757, aged 31. She had Amos, born Mar. 27, 1757. 

92. ii. MARTHA, born Apr. 24, 1729. 

93. iii. SARAH, born July 4, 1731. 

94. iv. ANN, bom Dec. 30, 1733. 

95. V. ABIGAIL, bom Jan. 29, 1736. 

48. CAPTAIN JOHN HINSDALE ' (Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Ro- 
bert^), son of Barnabas Hinsdale, Jr. and Martha Smith, 
his wife, born August 13, 1706; baptized at South Church, 
Hartford, Aug. 18, 1706; married, Nov. 8, 1733, Elizabeth 
Cole, who was born March 18, 1711, and died July 5, 1784, 
daughter of Nathaniel Cole, Jr., of Hartford. Captain John 



76 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Hinsdale settled in Berlin, Conn. He owned a farm there 
and he and his wife were received into Kensington church 
soon after their marriage. In May, 1749, he was appointed 
Ensign of the 15th Company or train-band in the 6th Regi- 
ment; made Lieutenant in May, 1752; and Captain in May, 
1759. In 1766 he was one of the standing committee of 
the church; in 1775 a constituent member; and was moder- 
ator of the second church meeting in their new meeting 
house. About 1780 he went to New Britain, Conn., to live, 
and united with the First church. In 1781 he bought of 
John Richards liis homestead for £900. John Richards 
and his son Amos signed the deed, March 3, 1781, of seventy 
acres, with house, formerly the Skinner house, and other 
buildings to Captain John Hinsdale. This was formerly 
the Deacon Josiah Lee farm. Captain John Hinsdale was 
a blacksmith, and had his shop near his house, opposite 
the Methodist Church in Berlin Street, New Britain. He 
sold to Doctor Smalley in 1788, ten acres and sixty- two 
rods of land. His will is dated July 26, 1792, and he died 
December 2, 1792, aged 86. He made his son-in-law, 
Samuel Hart, executor of his will. He was known as 
"Captain John Hinsdale," and was a man of rare military 
and literary ability. He was the grandfather of the well- 
known teachers and authors, Mrs. Emma Hart Willard 
of Troy, N. Y., and her sister, Mrs. Almira liincoln 
Phelps, and also great-grandfather of Elihu Burritt, the 
"Learned Blacksmith." 

Children : 

96. i. JOHN, born Aug. 19, 1734; died Oct. 13, 1743. 

97. ii. ELIZABETH, born June 29, 1736; married Apr. 28, 1758, 

David Atkins of Middletown, Conn.; she died 1772. 

98. iii. THEODORE, (Reverend), born Nov. 25, 1738; mar- 

ried Anna Bissell. 

99. iv. LUCY, bom July 16, 1741; married Samuel Plumb. 

100. V. ELIJAH, bom Apr. 1, 1744; married twice. 

101. vi. LYDIA, born Aug. 11, 1747; married Samuel Hart. 

102. vii. JOHN, bom Aug. 21, 1749; married Philomela Hurlbut. 

49. DEACON DANIEL HINSDALE* (Barnabas' Barnabas' 
Robert'), son of Barnabas Hinsdale, Jr. and Martha Smith, 
his wife, born May 15, 1708; baptized at South Church 
Hartford, May 17, 1708; was a weaver by trade; lived at 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 77 

Hartford; married, August 21, 1737, Catherine Curtis, 
of Wethersfield, Conn., who died April 12, 1778, aged 68 
years. He died September 13, 1781, aged 73 years. 
They are buried in the Centre Church Cemetery, Hartford. 
He was a deacon. His will is dated December 11, 1780; 
probated Mar. 22, 1782. His son Barnabas is named exe- 
cutor. His will is as follows: 

In the name of God, Amen. I, Daniel Hinsdale of 
Hartford in the County of Hartford, and state of Connecti- 
cut, being through the abundant Mercy and Goodness 
of God, tho weak in body, yet of a sound and Perfect 
understanding and memory. Do constitute this my Last 
will and testament and Desire it may be Received by 
all as such — 

Imprimis, I most humbly bequeath my soul to God 
my Maker Beseeching his most Gracious Acceptance of it 
thro the Alsufficient merit and mediation of my most Com- 
passionate Redeemer Jesus Christ, who Gave himself to be 
an atonement for my sins and is able to save to the utter- 
most all that Come unto God by him, and who I trust wiU 
not Reject me, a Returning Penitent Sinner when I come 
to him for Mercy — in this Hope and Confidence I 
Render up my soule with Comfort, humbly Beseeching 
the most Merciful and Gracious to Prepare me for the time 
of my Dissolution and then take to me to himself into 
that Peace and Rest which he has prepared for all that 
Love and fear his name. Amen. 

Imprimis, I give my Body to the Earth from whence it 
was taken in full assurance of the Resurrection at the Last 
Day, And as to my worldly Estate, I will and Positively 
order that all my Debts be Paid, and that it shall be Dis- 
posed of after my Decease in the following manner, viz. 

Item, I give to my son Barnabas Hinsdale Seven Acres of 
Land in my Homelott to Lye on the South side of sd lott 
running from East to West the whole length of the Lott. 
Including the Orchard and gardens at the East end and to 
Extend so far north as to make the sd Seven Acres, and the 
Dwelling house and Barn and all the other Buildings stand- 
ing on sd Land; Also a Lott I have in Newington which I 
purchased of William Wells Containing four acres. 

Item, I give to my son Daniel the One half of the Land 



78 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Between the Line dividing Between New Hartford and 
Harwington and Ezra Hinsdale's Land the South Half of 
sd Lott to be One Half in Quantity — and one acre in my 
Homelott to Lye next North to that I have given to 
Barnabas, and to Lye the whole Length of the Lott from 
East to West. 

Item, I will that my Daughter Martha Burnham shall have 
after my decease one cow and as much more of my move- 
able estate including sd cow as is worth ten pounds. 

Item, I give to my son Hezekiah Hinsdale six acres of 
land on the North Side of my Homelott to Lye the whole 
Length of sd Lott from East to West and to Extend from 
the North side so far South as to make sd six acres. 

Item, I give to my son James Hinsdale the North Half 
of my Lott in Harwinton which is to be Divided according 
to the Quantity by a strait Line Running thro the Middle 
East and West as the Side Lines run, Danl to have the 
South Half and James the North Half. 

Item, I give to my son William Hinsdale the whole of a 
Lott of Land I have in New Hartford Bounding South on 
the Dividing Line Between New Hartford and Harwinton 
West on Land Belonging to the Heirs of Solomon Yale, 
North on Land Belonging to Danl Phelps containing about 
thirty-two acres, be the same More or Less, and also my 
Loom and Reeds and all other Implements Belonging to 
the Weaving Business that Belong to me. 

Item, I will that after my Daughter Martha Burnham 
hath Received what I have Given to her Out of the Move- 
able Estate the Remainder to be Equally Divided among 
my Children. 

I do hereby make and appoint Barnabas to be executor 
of this my last wiU and testament. Declaring this and this 
only to be my Last will and testament. In confirmation 
whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal this 11th day 
of December 1780. Pronounced Published and Declared 
to be my Last will and testament. 

Daniel Hinsdale. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 79 

In Presence 
of Daniel Seymour 
Josiah Clark 
Ashbel Barnard 

Daniel Hinsdale's Will 

Exhibited in Court by Barnabas Hinsdale Ext. named 
in sd will. 

Will proved in coiu*t by the evidences thereto is proved 
and ordered to be recorded and kept on file. Jonth Bull. 
March 22, 1782. 

Children : 

103. i. BARNABAS, (Captain), bom Feb. 23, 1738; married 

Magdalen Seymour. 

104. ii. DANIEL, born about 1740; married Elizabeth. 

105. iii. MARTHA, married a Mr. Burnham. 

106. iv. HEZEKIAH. 

107. V. JAMES, bom in [1752; died at Hartford, Conn., in 1819, 

aged 67. 

108. vi. WILLIAM, bom about 1755; died Apr. 25, 1802, aged 47; 

buried at Centre Church Cemetery, Hartford. 

50. AMOS HINSDALE* (Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert^, son of 
Barnabas Hinsdale, Jr. and Martha Smith, his wife, born 
at Hartford, August 24, 1710; baptized at South Church, 
Hartford, August 27, 1710; married Experience, who died 
May 4, 1781, aged 61 years. Her grave is in the Centre 
Cemetery back of First Church, Hartford. He was buried 
at Hartford, January 1, 1792, aged 81. 

52. ELIZABETH HALL* (Sarah Hinsdale^ Barnabas^ Robert^, 
daughter of Deacon Samuel Hall and Sarah Hinsdale, his 
wife, born August 26, 1694; died August 1, 1756. She 
married, July 5, 1722, Steven Stocking. They lived in 
Chatham, Conn. 

Children : 

109. i. JOSEPH, born June 28, 1723; married, Nov. 1,1753, Sarah 

Shepard, widow of a Mr. Cornwall; and had six children. 

110. ii. STEVEN, born Aug. 15, 1724; died May 2, 1775; married, 

July 14, 1752, Mary Andrews; and had five children. 
. 111. iii. ELIZABETH, bom June 1, 1726. 
112. iv. SARAH, born Jan. 24, 1728; married Apr. 17, 1746, Deacon 
David Gage of Chatham. 



80 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

113. V. DAVID, bom Sept. 20, 1730; died Mar. 3, 1807; married 

July 14, 1753, Abigail Spencer; lived in East Haddam; 
had five children. 

114. vi. LOIS, bom July 15, 1733; died young. 

115. vii. AMOS, bom Aug. 7, 1736; died Sept. 15, 1762. 

56. THOMAS HALL^ (Sarah Hinsdale^ Barnabas' Robert^, son 
of Deacon Samuel Hall and Sarah Hinsdale, his wife, born 
October 15, 1707 ; married Margaret Hurlburt, daughter 
of Ebenezer Hurlburt of East Middletown, Conn. 

Child: 

116. i. SAMUEL, bom Sept. 25, 1742; died 1827; married, Nov. 

15, 1764, in Lebanon, Conn., Mary Pratt, who died in 
1833; they lived in East Haddam, Conn., where he died 
aged 85 years. 

59. ISAAC HINSDALE, JR." (Isaac' Barnabas' Robert*), son of 
Isaac Hinsdale and Lydia Loomis, his wife, born June 8, 
1719, baptized at South Church, Hartford, June 14, 1719. 
He married, and died about November, 1789. His will is 
dated October 20, 1789, and proved in Court February 
5, 1790. The will is as follows: 

In the name of God, Amen I, Isaac Hinsdale of Hartford 
in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut — 
Being weak of Body but of sound memory (Blessed be God) 
do this day the 20th of October 1789 — Make and Pubhsh 
this my last will and Testament in manner following (that 
is to say) First, I give to my beloved wife four acres of Land 
buting and bounding as follows — South on land Deeded 
to my wife — West on land of David Butler's — North on 
my own Land — East on my own land extending as far 
East as the North-west corner of Martin Kellogg's Land. 
Also one Cow and one two years old steer and one steer 
calf — also one half of my House the North Part — also 
the whole of my Household Fiu^nitiu-e except a pair of Cob 
irons which I give to my Grand Daughter, Rachel and I 
make and ordain my son Zadock sole Executor of this my 
last Will and Testament to take care and see the same Per- 
formed according to my true intent and Meaning. In wit- 
ness whereof I the said Isaac Hinsdale have to this my Last 
Will and Testament set my hand and seal the day and year 
above written. Isaac Hinsdale. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 81 

Signed sealed and Delivered 
in Presence of 
Charles Seymour 
Ebenz Faxon 
Lucy Seymour 

Hartford, County of Hartford, Dec. 5, 1789, Personally 
appeared Capt. Charles Seymour, Mr. Ebenezer Faxon and 
Lucy Seymour witnesses to the within will and made Oathe 
that they See the Testator of the within will and Testament 
Isaac Hinsdale, by name, sign and seal the same and 
Judged him to be of sound mind and memory when he 
made and executed the same and heard him pronounce 
and publish it to be his Last Will and Testament and that 
they signed the within will and testament in the presence 
of the said Isaac Hinsdale the testator sworn before me. 

Certified by Noah Webster 

Justice of the Peace. 

Last Will and Testament of Isaac Hinsdale late of Hart- 
ford. Exhibited by Zadoc Hinsdale Executor named there- 
in who accepted the Trust thereof, said will being proved. 
Feby 5, 1790. 

Children : 

117. i. ISAAC, baptized Dec. 27, 1752; died at West Hartford, 

Conn., Mar. 6, 1777. 

118. ii. ZADOC, baptized Jan. 8, 1758; died Sept. 26, 1761. 

119. iii. ZADOC, baptized Apr. 17, 1763; married Elizabeth, who 

died Feb. 28, 1814. 

60. JOSEPH HINSDALE* (Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert^, son of 
Isaac Hinsdale and Lydia Loomis, his wife, born August 9, 
1720; baptized at South Church, Hartford, Aug. 14, 1720; 
lived at Wethersfield and Canaan Conn. He married, Nov- 
ember 6, 1746, Elizabeth Kellogg of Hartford, who 
was born in 1726, and died October 24, 1789, m the 63rd 
year of her age. About 1790 he removed from Canaan 
to Hinesburg, Vt., where he lived with his son Aaron 
until his death December 30, 1800, aged 81 years. He 
was an original proprietor of land grants at Caanan 1738-40. 
His grave is in the old Cemetery at Hinesburg, and the 
following lines are inscribed on the stone: 



82 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

"Stop, traveller, as you pass by. 
As you are now, so once was I, 
As I am now, soon you will be. 
Prepare for death and follow me." 

Children : 

120. i. JOvSEPH, born Sept. 14, 1747; married Hannah Bingham. 

121. ii. LYDIA, born Mar. 12, 1749; married Ozias Boardman. 

122. iii. MARY, bom Mar. 12, 1749; married Edmund Grandey. 

123. iv. ABEL, bom at Wethersfield, Conn., June 20, 1750; died 

urmiarried. 

124. V. WILLIAM, born Feb. 16, 1752; married Sarah Strong. 

125. vi. MOSES, bom May 22, 1754; married Ruth Lord. 

126. vii. ELIZABETH, born at Canaan, Dec. 15, 1756. 

127. viii. LUCY, born Aug. 2, 1759; married Reverend Justus 

Byington. 

128. ix. AARON, born Mar. 25, 1764; married Lucinda Mitchell. 

129. X. JACOB, born Mar. 23, 1766; married Hannah Cook. 

130. xi. CHLOE, born Dec. 17, 1769; married Jeremiah Hurlburt 

61. JONATHAN HINSDALE^ (Isaac' Barnabas' Robert^), son 
of Isaac Hinsdale and Lydia Loomis, his wife, was born 
March 17, 1724, probably at Hartford. In 1750 he settled 
in Lenox, Mass., being the first English inhabitant of that 
town. He built his house about fifty rods south of Court 
House Hill, on the east side of the county road running 
through the village of Lenox. He with, a few other fami- 
lies, who had settled near him, were obliged to flee from 
the town some five years afterwards from fear of the In- 
dians. (See Holland's History of Western Massachusetts. 
Vol. 2, page 522.) He married, December, 1749, Sarah 
Bernard, born September 17, 1727. 

Children : 

131. i. RHODA, bom Nov. 28, 1751; married Elihu Parsons, Jr. 

132. ii. DAVID, bom June 30, 1754; married Farazina Bemis. 

133. iii. SARAH, born at Lenox, Mass., Oct. 16, 1756. 

134. iv. HULDAH, born at Lenox, Dec. 8, 1758; died Dec. 4, 1762. 

135. v. LYDIA, born at Lenox, Oct. 7, 1761; died Dec. 4, 1762. 

136. vi. LYDIA, born at Lenox, Aug. 12, 1763. 

137. vii. ELIZABETH, born at Lenox, June 12, 1765. 

138. viii. JOSEPH BERNARD, bom at Lenox, May 27, 1769. 

65. MEHITABEL DICKINSON* (Mehitabel Hinsdale' Samuel' 
Robert*), daughter of Sergeant Obadiah Dickinson and Me- 
hitabel Hinsdale, his wife, born at Wethersfield, June 16, 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 83 

1696, died after 1752. She married, January 26, 1715, Na- 
thaniel Frary, born November 29, 1675; died April 30, 
1737. 

Children, born at Deerfield, Mass. : 

139. i. OBADIAH. born 1717. 

140. ii. NATHAN, (Captain), married twice. 

141. iii. EUNICE, born Nov. 30, 1721; married. May 26, 1743, 

Aaron Field of Bernardston. 

142. iv. AMOS, bom Aug. 17, 1726; died Apr. 23, 1728. 

69. JOSIAH SHELDON^ (Mary Hinsdale^ SamueP Robert^, son 
of Deacon Thomas Sheldon and Mary Hinsdale, his wife, 
born December, 1695, married. May 30, 1721, Anne Stan- 
ley. 

Children : 

143. i. CALEB, bom July 27, 1722. 

144. ii. DAN, bom Feb. 22, 1726. 

145. iii. ASHER, bom Nov. 16, 1728. 

146. iv. ANN, born June 28, 1732. 

147. V. RUTH, born 1734. 

70! BENJAMIN SHELDON^ (Mary Hinsdale'' SamueP Robert*), 
son of Deacon Thomas Sheldon and Mary Hinsdale, his 
wife, born 1697, died August 28, 1772. He married, June 
12, 1723. Mary Strong, born January 16, 1701; died May 
26, 1770, daughter of Ebenezer Strong, Jr. and Mary 
Holton, his wife. 

Children, born at Northampton : 

148. i. WILLIAM, bom Apr. 12, 1724; died Feb. 19, 1741. 

149. ii. JEMIMA, bom Nov. 29, 1725; married about 1750, Captain 

William Lyman. 

150. iii. BENJAMIN, (Ensign), bom 1728; married Elizabeth 

Hunt, daughter of Ebenezer Hunt, of Northampton. 

151. iv. REBECCA, bom 1730; died at Hadley, April, 1811; mar- 

ried, 1746, Benjamin Parsona. They had ten children, of 
whom the Rev. Justin Parsons was the grandfather of Hon. 
Levi P. Morton, Ex- Vice-President of the United Statea. 

152. v. MERCY, bom 1732; married, 1756, Joseph Lyman, Jr. of 

Northampton. 

153. vi. PHEBE, baptized Aug. 10, 1735; died May 30, 1776; 

married, Nov. 4, 1762, Quartus Pomeroy, son of Colonel 
Seth Pomeroy of Northampton. 

154. vii. JERUSHA, bom Feb. 28, 1737; died about 1801; mar- 

ried, Nov. 28,11757, Rev. Richard Ely of GuUford, Conn. 

155. viii. MARTHA, bom June 3, 1739; died unmarried. 



84 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

74. MARTIN KELLOGG, JR.* (Ann Hinsdale^ SamueP Robert^ , 

son of Martin Kellogg and Ann Hinsdale, his wife, born 
Oct. 26, 1686; died Nov. 15, 1753. He lived at Newington, 
Conn., and married Dorothy Chester, daughter of Stephen 
Chester of Wethersfield, Conn. She was born September 5, 
1692. In the attack on Deerfield on the night of February 
29, 1703, by the French and Indians, Martin with his father 
and two brothers and two sisters were captured and taken 
to Canada. All retiu-ned but his sister Joanna, who mar- 
ried an Indian Chief. Martin Kellogg became a noted 
official interpreter of the French and Indian tongues, and 
at the time of his death had charge of an Indian school at 
Stockbridge, Mass. 

75. ANNA KELLOGG * (Ann Hinsdale^ SamueP Robert^ , daugh- 

ter of Martin Kellogg and Ann Hinsdale, his wife, born 
July 14, 1689, married Lieutenant Joseph Severance. 
He was active in the old French War of 1747-8. In 1710, 
he bought of Martin Kellogg lot 36 at Deerfield, and he 
was living there in 1756. 

78. COLONEL EBENEZER HINSDALE* (Mehuman^" SamueP 
Robert'), son of Lieutenant Mehuman Hinsdale and Mary 
Rider, his wife, born between May 30, and August 4, 1706, 
at sea, diu'ing the retiu-n of his parents from captivity in 
Canada. On landing at Boston, he was baptized in the old 
Old South Church by the Pastor, the Rev. Samuel Willard. 
He was graduated at Harvard College, 1727; was ordained 
a missionary to the Indians at the Old Sovith Church, Bos- 
ton, December 12, 1733, and stationed at Fort Dummer, 
near the present town of Hinsdale, N. H., w^hich place was 
founded by, and named for him. He remained as Chap- 
lain at the Fort until 1740. He was not a great success 
as a missionary, but succeeded in civil and mihtary life. 
In 1743, he built, at his own cost. Fort Hinsdale, located 
where the town of that name now is. He owned two 
mulato slaves, Mesheck and Jockton. The former was an 
important member of his master's family. The Colonel did 
a large mercantile business at Hinsdale and also at Deer- 
field. Mesheck seems to have conducted the business at 
one place while his master was at the other. The Colonel 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 85 

had his residence in Deerfielu on lot 42. He was active in 
the French and Indian Wars, and events of importance 
centered about Fort Hinsdale; was influential with the 
Colonial officers and useful in the Commissary Department. 
He fell somewhat from grace, left the ministry, was ac- 
cused of intemperance, and in 1750, "he offered a Confes- 
sion before the Church" for the "sin of Intemperate 
Drinking" and "no objection was made against its being 
accepted." He married about 1730 Abigail Williams, 
daughter of Reverend John Williams. After the death 
of Colonel Ebenezer Hinsdale, which occurred January 6, 
1763, at Hinsdale, she married, second, October 18, 1764, 
Colonel Benjamin Hall of Wallingford, Conn., who died, 
when she married, third, between June 15, and October 
23, 1773, Honorable Ebenezer Silliman, of Fairfield, Conn., 
who died October 11, 1775, and she returned to her old 
home, where she died December 3, 1783, and was buried 
by the side of her first husband, Ebenezer, at Hinsdale. 
She was a woman of great energy and executive ability, 
literally a daughter of "The Redeemed Captive," for she 
was born after his return from captivity in Canada, and 
inherited much of his brave spirit. Being a woman she 
could not bear arms, but she could command those who 
did. During her residence at the Fort, there was indeed 
no war, but Indians were constantly at the Fort for trad- 
ing and other purposes, and she came to know the race 
well. In a Diary of "A Tour to the Connecticut River 
through the Colony of Massachusetts from Wells by Paul 
Coffin," occurs the following: 

"July 25, 1760, Rode alone to Deerfield, dined with Rev. 
Ashley; then waited on Col. Hinsdale. This man, with 
Joseph Secombe and Mr. Parker, was ordained a missionary 
in Boston. Hinsdale was sent westward. The other two 
went East. All this must have been done long before the 
War of 1755. Hinsdale did not preach long. The town 
near Fort Dummer is now called Hinsdale, after the 
said Hinsdale. The fort he built at his own cost. 

"July 27. Went to Hinsdale yesterday, and here lodged 
last night. Madam Hinsdale went with me in a Row-Boat 
3 miles to hear a Mr. Strong, afterwards. Judge Strong, 
preach. His texts were Tit. 2:11, 12, and 1 John 3:2. 



86 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

"July 28. I rode this day about 36 miles. There are 
about 20 families in Hinsdale, 62 in Northfield. Col. 
Hinsdale has 30 acres of English grain fit for the sickel." 

The inscription on the granite slab over his grave, which 
his widow Abigail caused to be erected, has been so obliter- 
ated by time, that it is now impossible to decipher all the 
words. From other sources, we learn that this is what was 
once discernable: 

"Underneath deposited is the body of Col. Ebenezer 
Hinsdale, who for his supernatural endowments, extensive 
learning and usefulness, not only in his private life, but in 
various important public offices he sustained, was far 
Known and admired. After a long illness, he died January 
6, 1763. Here also lies the body of Mrs. Mary Beal, the 
mother of Col. Ebenezer Hinsdale, who was born on her 
return from captivity in Canada, with whom she lived a 
widow at the time of his death, which is thought to have 
brought on hers, the morning after when she died Anno 
Aetatis 83. Her husbands were Lieut. Mehuman 
Hinsdale and Mr. George Beal. By the first she had two 
sons, Samuel and John after this, whose only child, 
Abigail Hinsdale, died at Hinsdale August 10, 1739, 
anno aetatis 6, was interred at Deerfield. His still sur- 
viving partner, Mrs. Abigail Hinsdale, daughter of the 
Rev. John Williams of Deerfield, and worthy relic of Col. 
Ebenezer Hinsdale, now mourning the absence of her 
dear deceased relations, has caused their names and 
destinies to be recorded together on this stone June 2, 
1764." 

Abigail, the widow of Ebenezer, left a will, the provi- 
sions of which are as follows; "To my niece, Sarah Wil- 
liams, a silver cup with Coat of Arms of Hinsdale Family 
engraved upon it. To the Church in Hinsdale my great 
silver tankard with Hinsdale Coat of Arms. 

"To Abigail Norton, my niece, my chaise, gold neck- 
lace, and gold earrings. 

"To my grand-daughter Abigail Hall my silk gown and 
gold necklace. 

"To my grand-daughter Frances Silliman gold locket. 

"To my niece Martha Reynolds, dark padaroy gown. 

"To Anna Gushing, my looking-glass. To the wife of 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 87 

Esq. John Williams, my crimson cloak. Chloe, my negrow, 
to be free at my death; to have a bible, a cow, a feather 
bed, a brass Kettle, a pot, 2 tramels. Chests, hand-irons, 
chairs and pewter things. Jockton, a mulatto of Col. 
Hinsdale's to have the avails of 100 acres of land in New 
Hampshire." 

The "cup" and "tankard" mentioned as having the 
Family Coat of Arms engraven thereon, have not yet 
been found, though much search has been made for 
them. Unless one of these is found, the device 
of the Hinsdale Coat of Arms in this country 
will probably not be known. There is in the posses- 
"» sion of Miss M. J. Marshall of Weston, Mass., a fine 

silver cup or Cann, as it is called, presented as a 
wedding gift in 1752 by Col. Ebenezer and his wife 
Abigail, to their niece Mrs. Abigail Williams. It has been 
handed down through several generations, and at different 
times the several donors have engraved upon it the fol- 
lowing: "This Cann is presented to Mrs. Abigail Williams 
by her Uncle and Aunt Hinsdale 1752. In 1847, Presented 
by Miss Sarah Woodward, the daughter of Abigail Williams 
to her niece Mrs. Sophia Marshall. In 1876, presented 
by Mrs. Sophia Marshall to her daughter, Maria J. Mar- 
shall." The device engraven on this cup is a wreath with 
a stag in the center and the head and neck of a stag on the 
crest. This is evidently not the "cup" mentioned in the 
will of Abigail Hinsdale, nor is it likely that the device upon 
it represents the Hinsdale Coat of Arms, but was probably 
engraven upon it before its purchase, to add to its beauty. 

The original commission dated 1740, from Gov. Belcher 
to Ebenezer Hinsdale to be Chaplain at Fort Dummer is 
preserved in Memorial Hall, Deerfield. (No. 87 Library). 
Also autograph receipt for money from Gov. Thos. 
Hutchinson to Ebenezer Hinsdale dated 1749. (No. 155 
Library). Also receipt for legacy from estate of Madam 
Silliman (Abigail Hinsdale) by Bunker Gay, 1791. (No. 
156 Library). 

79. SAMUEL HINSDALE* (Mehuman' SamueP Robert^, son 
of Lieutenant Mehuman Hinsdale and Mary Rider, his 
wife, born April 24, 1708; died November 23, 1786; select- 



88 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

man and prominent in town affairs; settled in Greenfield 
Meadows. He married, first, November 28, 1734,Rebecca 
Leonard; she died August 16, 1760, aged 47. He married, 
second, December 2, 1763, Eunice, widow of Rev. Alex- 
ander McDowell of Colerain; she died May 29, 1779. He 

married, third, Sarah ; she died January 28, 1799, 

aged 83. He owned lot No. 43 in Deerfield. 

Children: 

By his first wife, Rebecca Leonard. 

156. i. ChUd, born Oct. 23, 1738. 

157. ii. SAMUEL, bom Aug. 22, 1741; married Mary Stebbins. 

158. iii. REBECCA, bom July 8, 1743; married Jonathan Amas. 

159. iv. MARY, bom Oct. 23, 1745; married, Nov. 23, 1768, Gideon 

Stebbins of Belchertown. 

160. V. DARIUS, bom May 10, 1748; died Apr. 13, 1768; his 

education at Harvard College was provided for by the 
will of his uncle Ebenezer. 

161. vi. ARIEL, (Corporal), bom Sept. 11, 1750; married Thank- 

ful Severance. 

162. vii. DIANA, bom Oct. 9, 1752; married twice. 

163. viii. JOSEPH, bom July 3, 1757; died Aug. 16, 1757. 

164. ix. BENJAMIN, bom Sept. 10, 1758; died Oct. 10, 1758. 

By his second wife, Eunice. 

165. X. EBENEZER, bom Oct. 30, 1766; was Hving in 1774. 

166. xi. ABIGAIL, bom June 11, 1769; probably died young. 

80. JOHN HINSDALE^ (Mehuman^ SamueP Robert*), son of 

Lieutenant Mehuman Hinsdale and Mary Rider, his wife, 
born October 9, 1713; lived on the old homestead at Deer- 
field; died September 4, 1746; left an estate of 5586 pounds, 
11 shillings and 6 pence; he married, November 14, 1735, 
Hannah Arms, daughter of John Arms; she married, 
second, May 30, 1763, Captain Zaccheus Crocker of Shutes- 
biu-y; she died at Shelburne, February 3, 1780, aged 69. 

Children : 

167. i. HANNAH, bom Aug. 27, 1736; died Sept. 6, 1736. 

168. ii. JOHN, born Jan. 18, 1738; married Eleanor. 

169. iii. ELISHA, born June 30, 1741; married three times. 

170. iv. HANNAH, bom June 10, 1743; married Simeon Stebbins. 

171. V. ABIGAIL, born Dec. 6, 1745; married EHas Norton. 

81. ELIZABETH CORNWALL* (Elizabeth Hinsdale^" Experi- 

ence^ Robert'), only child of John Cornwall and Elizabeth 
Hinsdale, his wife, born August 21, 1696, married, June 8, 



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1716, Jacob Dowd. Their son John drew his great-grand- 
father Hinsdale's share in the "Falls Fight" township in 
1737. 

82. CAPTAIN JACOB HINSDALE, JR.« (Jacob* Barnabas' 

Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Captain Jacob Hinsdale and 
Hannah Seymour, his wife, born probably at Hartford, 
Conn., in 1734, died November 22, 1815, aged 81. He 
married, first. May 11, 1758, Mary Brace of Harwinton, 
Conn,, who died December 22, 1793, aged 52. He married, 
second, April 3, 1802, Rachel, widow of Jesse Goodwin, 
who died September 15, 1818, aged 76. He removed with 
his family to Canaan, Conn., probably soon after 1773, 
and is said to have had ten children, though only six are 
recorded in Harwinton. He was Captain of the 4th 
Company, 17th Regiment, October, 1778, in the War of 
the Revolution. He was made Deacon of the Church at 
Canaan in 1800. 

Children : 

By his first wife, Mary Brace. 

172. i. JACOB, bom Apr. 18, 1759; married SaUy Barber. 

173. ii. ELISHA, (Captain), bom at Harwinton, Conn., Feb. 28, 

1761; married twice. 

174. iii. ELIAS, born Apr. 20, 1763; removed to New York State 

about 1814; married, Dec. 2, 1784, Thankful Famum; 
both of Litchfield, Conn. 

175. iv. ABEL, born at Canaan, Conn., July 19, 1765; married 

Mary Ivnapp. 

176. V. RHODA, born Feb. 27, 1770. 

177. vi. WHITING, bom Oct. 17, 1773; married twice. 

178. vii. SHERMAN, went to sea, and died in New York. 

179. viii, ELIZUR, bom at Canaan, 1783; married three times. 

83. HANNAH HINSDALE » (Jacob^ Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Rob- 

ert'), daughter of Captain Jacob Hinsdale and Hannah 
Seymour, his wife, born February 27, 1736, at Harwin- 
ton, married March 7, 1759, William Cook. She died 
March 28, 1775. 

Children : 

180. i. HANNAH, born June 19, 1760. 

181. ii. WILLIAM, bom Jan. 2, 1762. 



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86. SERGEANT EZRA HINSDALE ' (Jacob* Barnabas^ Bar- 

nabas^ Robert'), son of Captain Jacob Hinsdale and Hannah 
Seymour, his wife, born January 5, 1741, died June 1, 1804. 
He married, November 15, 1764, Sarah Hopkins, daughter 
of Hezekiah and Sarah Hopkins of Harwinton, Conn. He 
was Sergeant in Captain Foote's Company of Connecticut 
MiUtia; discharged May 20, 1777. 

Children : 

182. i. EZRA, bom Feb. 3, 1766; married twice. 

183. ii. SARAH, born Mar. 8, 1768; died in early life; unmarried. 

184. iii. HANNAH, born Dec. 8, 1769; married three times. 

185. iv. ROSWELL, bom Aug. 26, 1772; married Sybel Winchell. 

186. V. MARTIN, born Oct. 30, 1774; died Feb. 14, 1809; un- 

married. 

187. vi. LYDIA, born Apr. 13, 1777; married Benajah Hopkins. 

188. vii. HULDAH, bom June 15, 1779; married Norman Barber. 

189. viii. ERASTUS, born Jan. 7, 1782; moved to New York State. 

190. ix. MARILLA, married twice. 

191. X. ISAAC, born Feb. 26, 1788; married Emilia Frisbie. 

87. STEPHEN HINSDALE ' (Jacob* Barnabas' Barnabas^ Rob- 

ert'), son of Captain Jacob Hinsdale and Hannah Seymour, 
his wife, born March 22, 1743, died September 25, 1772. 
He married, November 14, 1771, Rhoda Judd, of Farm- 
ington, Conn. She married, second, Joel Gillett of Harwin- 
ton, Conn. 

Child: 

192. i. STEPHEN, bom Dec. 28, 1772; died Sept., 1777. 

89. GEORGE HINSDALE ^ (Jacob* Barnabas' Barnabas^* Rob- 
ert'), son of Jacob Hinsdale and Hannah Seymour, his 
wife, born at Harwinton, Conn., April 15, 1745; married 
at Canaan, Columbia County, N. Y., November 25, 1767, 
Phebe Allen, daughter of Thomas Allen and Martha 
Hall, his wife, of Norwich, Conn. 

George died at Canaan, N. Y., March 20, 1784. Phebe 
died at Canaan, April 17, 1791. She was the adopted 
daughter of William Bradford Whiting and Amy, his wife, 
and at the age of nine years went with the Whitings to 
Canaan ; where at nineteen years of age she married George 
Hinsdale. Both are buried at Canaan, N. Y. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 91 

Children : 

193. i. CHLOE, married at Canaan, N. Y., William Noyes, Jr. 

She died July 15, 1798. 

194. ii. ANNA, died Feb. 5, 1776. 

195. iii. PHILARA. 

196. iv. NANCY. 

197. V. GEORGE, died at sea. 

198. vi. LURA, married a Mr. Deane; died Dec. 15, 1799. 

199. vii. LYDIA. 

200. vlii. PHEBE, bom May 1, 1783; married Timothy Brown. 

98. REVEREND THEODORE HINSDALE » (John^ Barnabas' 
Barnabas^ Robert*), son of Captain John Hinsdale and 
Elizabeth Cole, his wife, born at Berlin, Conn., November 
25, 1738, was graduated at Yale College in 1762. He 
was ordained minister at North Windsor, Conn., April 30, 
1766, and dismissed March 4, 1795. He married, July 14. 
1768, Anna Bissell, who was born March 11, 1748, and 
died at Hinsdale, Mass., March 14, 1817. He removed to 
what is now Hinsdale, Mass.,* in April, 1795, where, 
December 17, 1795, he organized a Church with twenty- 
three members. This town was named for him. It was 
incorporated June 21, 1804. He was 58 years of age when 
he entered upon his ministry at what was afterwards 
Hinsdale. He served the Church at North Windsor 
twenty-eight years; was a man of marked abiUty and 
strong will and an active man of affairs. He died at 
Hinsdale, December 29, 1818, aged 80 years. Near the 
gate of the Cemetery at Hinsdale, upon the left, as you 

* " The town of Hinsdale, Mass., is situated on the western slope of the Green 
Mountain range in the basin of the eastern branch of the the Housatonic — 
contains 17000 acres — fertile soil — ■ rich pastures. A portion of the meadow 
on the "Leffingwell grant" were brought into cultivation as early as 1780. 
In 1795 the territory was incorporated as a parish by the name of the West 
Parish of Partridgefield (now Peru) named for one of the subsequent propri- 
etors, Oliver Partridge of Hatfield. The first settlement of the town com- 
menced about 1763 by the arrival of David, Thomas and Frances Miller from 
Middlebury. From 1775 to 1800 a large number of families settled here, 
mostly from Connecticut. Two of the persons from that state. Rev. Theo- 
dore Hinsdale and Richard Starr, were instrumental in organizing the Con- 
gregational Church in Dec, 1795 with a membership of 23 persons. In 
1800 the parish was so far out of debt that it proceeded to settle a minister. 
In 1801 the church invited Rev. Caleb Knight to become their pastor, — or- 
dained 1802. June 21, 1804 the parish was incorporated into a town with the 
name of Hinsdale in honor of Rev. Theodore Hinsdale, one of the first settlers. 
In 1807 the first bell was purchased for the church, Theodore Hinsdale, Jr., 
giving $100.00 towards it. Holland's "History of Western Massachusetts." 



92 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

enter, is a handsome monument to his memory. The 
inscription upon it was doubtless a sincere tribute. "A 
lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, 
holy, temperate, holding fast the faithful word as he hath 
been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine, 
both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers." 

From "History of Berkshire County f' Edited by D. D. Field. 

"The Rev. Mr. Hinsdale in honor of whom the town was 
named, was the son of Mr. John Hinsdale of Berlin, Conn. 
He was born November 25, 1738, O. S., and in the 20th 
year of his age was admitted a member of Yale College 
where he sustained a very respectable standing as scholar 
and Christian. After he was graduated he was employed 
several years in teaching and at the same time engaged 
in preparing for the ministry to which he was ordained 
in the 29th year of his age as pastor of a church in Windsor, 
Conn. In a concio delivered at Yale College he defended 
ably the divinity of the Scriptures, in an argument from 
prophecy. After 28 years happily spent with his people he 
was induced to consent to a dismission, by a union of his 
parish with the other Congregational parish in the town. 
Being somewhat advanced in age and having a numerous 
family of sons he came to this town and settled on a farm. 
It was still his intention to have continued statedly in the 
ministry, but in providence a door never seemed opened 
for his re-settlement. He therefore spent his days in the 
town, occasionally preaching in different places. In town 
he exerted a very happy influence ; was the principal agent 
in gathering the church and in establishing religious order. 
For a number of years he officiated as justice of the 
peace, and in the various conditions of life maintained a 
dignity of character and soundness which few possess. 
He was a lover of learning and though in a measure retired 
from the duties of the ministry, kept up an habitual ac- 
quaintance with the intelligence appropriately ministered, 
associated with his brethern and was not unfrequently 
called to sit in ecclesiastical councils. He preserved till 
his death a knowledge of his youthful studies, read the 
classics with perfect ease and could quote them readily 
when occasion called. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 93 

He died in the house of his family suddenly on the 28th 
of December 1818, not having lived a day beyond his use- 
fulness." 

Children : 

201. i. ANNE, (or NANCY), bom at Windsor, Conn., Apr. 16, 1769; 

baptized Apr. 23, 1769; died at Troy, N. Y., May 16, 1851 ; 
aged 82 years; unmarried; she established the first young 
ladies' school in Pittsfield, Mass., and was a long time a 
teacher in connection with her cousin, Mrs. Emma Willard, 
in the Willard Female Seminary at Troy, N. Y.; an ex- 
cellent picture of her is in the Pittsfield Library. * 

202. ii. LUCY, born at Windsor, Dec. 31, 1770; baptized Jan. 6, 

1771; died Mar. 21, 1792, aged 22 years. 

203. iii. THEODORE, born at Windsor, Nov. 12, 1772; married 

Fanny Pomeroy. 

204. iv, JOSIAH BISSELL, bom at Windsor, Nov. 15, 1774; mar- 

ried Temperance Pitkin. 

205. V. JAMES, bom Sept. 28, 1776; baptized Oct. 27, 1776; died 

Sept. 28, 1777. 

206. vi. JOHN, bom Nov. 10, 1778; married twice. 

207. vii. LEVI, bom Nov. 29, 1780; died Feb. 19, 1830. 

208. viii. ALTAMIRA, (or ALTEMIRA), born Nov. 8, 1782; bap- 

tized Dec. 13, 1782; died at Princeton, N. J., Nov. 11, 
1836; married Sylvester Emmons, of Princeton. 



♦Copy of a card attached to the portrait of Miss Nancy Hinsdale, presented 
to the Pittsfield, Mass., Library by John H. Willard of Troy, N. Y. 

"Nancy Hinsdale, bom April 16, 1769, died May 16, 1851 aged 82 years. 
She was the eldest daughter of Rev. Theodore Hinsdale. The Pittsfield Fe- 
male Academy under her direction was founded and became distinguished as 
being the mother of all Pittsfield seminaries. The writer was the pupil of 
her cousin. Miss Hinsdale, in the year 1812, whom she ever regarded with love 
and veneration often viewing her as the Hannah More of America. Like that 
venerable woman she was covirteous, benevolent, learned, discreet and pious, 
and like her spent a long life in maiden meditation fancy free. "If she did 
not write scores of books" she preached sermons to the young, trained them 
in the way they should go and always exercised great influence in the 
sphere in which she moved. She had lived in retirement several years when 
in 1830 the writer being Principal of the Troy Seminary in the absence of her 
sister Mrs. Willard (then in Europe) urged her cousin to come to her help, or 
as she said "to teach her how to teach." Mrs. Hinsdale, (for we adopted the 
English custom of address to a single lady past middle age) , remained at Troy 
till removed by death from this mortal life. Here she was ever devoted to 
good works, counseling the teachers, instructing the pupils and often filling 
the place of Chaplain. She was faithful to her church and clergymen looked 
up to her as a wise friend and adviser. The writer in her own advanced age 
esteems it a privilege that she is permitted to offer this tribute to the blessed 
memory of a saint like woman whose portrait may well be entitled to a place 
among the benefactors of a past age." 

Almira Lincoln Phelps. 
Youngest of the family of Lydia Hinsdale Hart. 



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209. ix. DANIEL, bom Mar. 22, 1785; baptized May 1, 1785; died 

May 4, 1837, at Rising Sun, Iowa; married and had two 
children, perhaps more. 

210. X. HORATIO, born Nov. 3, 1787; baptized Dec. 16, 1787; 

died Apr. 9, 1813. 

211. xi. WILLIAM, (Deacon), bom at Windsor, Conn., Mar. 5, 

1790; married twice. 

99. LUCY HINSDALE'' (John* Barnabas' Barnabas^ RobertO, 
daughter of Captain John Hinsdale and EHzabeth Cole, his 
wife, born July 16, 1741; died December 11, 1790 (or Feb- 
ruary, 1791); married, January 13, (or 27), 1763, Samuel 
Plumb, of Middletown, Conn., born January 9, 1737; died 
April 20, 1826. 

Children : 

212. i. LYDIA, bom Dec. 22, 1763; died in Ohio; married Bethuel 

Hurlburt. 

213. ii. SAMUEL, born June 22, 1765; died June 25, 1765. 

214. iii. CLARISSA, born Nov. 23, 1768; died young. 

215. iv. SARAH, born May 9, 1770; married 1793, Lemuel Scovil, 

who died in 1863. 

216. v. SAMUEL, bom Feb. 25, 1772; married Hannah ScovU. 

217. vi. LUCY, born Jan. 2, 1779; married, first, Amasa Waters; 

second, a Mr. EUis. 

218. vii. JOHN, born May 14, 1782; married EHzabeth Clark. 

100. ELIJAH HINSDALE ' (John* Barnabas' Barnabas' Robert'), 
son of Captain John Hinsdale and Elizabeth Cole, his wife, 
born April 1, 1744, at Farmington, Conn., married Ruth 
BiDWELL, daughter of James Bidwell, Jr., of Hartford. 
They lived at Stepney, now Rocky Hill, Conn,, on the 
Connecticut River, and their children were born there. 
Elijah Hinsdale was a blacksmith. On February 12, 1777, 
he bought of Stephen Lee, the old homestead of his grand- 
father. Captain Stephen Lee, called later the Hinsdale 
house, at the north corner of East and Smalley streets in 
New Britain. For £208, except the incumbrance of his 
father, he piu^chased his home-lot of two acres, and house, 
his barn-lot of twenty-four acres, and his lot next east 
of the meeting house containing eight acres. He occupied 
also the smith shop formerly built and occupied by John 
Richards. His place extended west to the meeting house 
yard, except the "burying ground." He had a mulberry 
orchard and silk house, and received a silk bounty from the 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 95 

State. His wife died in 1803, and he married, second, 
Sarah Daniels. His daughter EHzabeth Hinsdale married 
Elihu Burritt of New Britain and was mother of Elihu 
Burritt, the "Learned Blacksmith," and EHjah Burritt, 
the astromoner. Elijah Hinsdale died of consumption 
June 26, 1 797. Mr. James Freeman Clark in his Memorial 
and Biographical Sketches speaks thus of Elijah Hinsdale: 
"He was a remarkable man, intrusted with town offices, a 
great reader, and with only ordinary advantages, possessed 
himself of an extraordinary fund of knowledge. His won- 
derful love of learning and a capability of retaining it will 
undoubtedly be found to have been handed down to the 
Hinsdales and throughout the various branches of their 
descendants as far as it can be traced." 

Children : 

219. i. ELIZABETH, bom Feb. 6, 1775; married Elihu Burritt. 

220. ii. ROXANA, bom June 10, 1778; married Captain Ezekiel 

Andrews. 

lOL LYDIA HINSDALE ' (John^ Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert^, 
daughter of Captain John Hinsdale and Elizabeth Cole, his 
wife, born August 11, 1747; married, October 4, 1770, 
Captain Samuel Hart, of Berlin, Conn., born 1738, son 
of Samuel Hart, born 1692, who married Mary Hooker. 
Samuel and Lydia Hart had ten children, one of whom 
was Emma, married John Willard; and another was 
Almira (Mrs. Phelps), both known widely as instruc- 
tresses and authoresses. Dr. John Lord, in his "Life of 
Emma Willard," thus speaks of her mother: "She was 
practical, economical, industrious, sagacious, charitable, 
an admirable manager, a help-meet — a type of those 
old-fashioned New England wives who believe in duties 
rather than rights, and who kept alive the fire of her 
domestic hearth by her lovalty and love." 

Children : 

221. i. MARY, bom Sept, 23, 1771; married John Lee. 

222. ii. JOHN bom Jan. 23, 1773; died Sept. 13, 1816, aged 

44 years. 

223. ill. JAMES, bom Dec. 26, 1774; died Dec. 25, 1796, at Staun- 

ton, Del., aged 22 years. 

224. iv. THEODORE, bom Aug. 30, 1776; died at Petersburg, 

Va., Nov. 1, 1815, aged 39 years. 



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225. V. LYDIA, bom Sept. 18, 1778; married Elisha Treat. 

226. vi. BETSEY, bom Sept. 21, 1781; died aged 11 years. 

227. vii. HULDAH, bom July 12, 1783; died Jan. 1, 1784. 

228. viii. NANCY, bom Mar. 8, 1785; married Joshua Simmons. 

229. ix. EMMA, bom Feb. 23, 1787; married Doctor John Willard. 

230. X. ALMIRA, bom July 13, 1793; married, first, Simeon Lin- 

cohi; second, John Phelps. 

102. JOHN HINSDALE ' (Jolin* Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert^, 

son of Captain John Hinsdale and Elizabeth Cole, his wife, 
born Aug. 21, 1749, died at Berlin, Conn., Dec. 9, 1795, 
aged 46, and was buried there. He married Philomela 
HuRLBUT, daughter of Doctor James Harvey Hurlbut 
and Hart, his wife. 

Children : 

231. i. HOSEA, (Colonel), bom Feb. 15, 1775; married Elizabeth 

Shepard. 

232. ii. ABIGAIL, born 1777; married William Benham; settled 

in West Hartford, Conn. 

233. iii. ESTHER, bom 1779; married Amos Hill of Farmington, 

Conn. ; she died at Cabot, Vt. 

234. iv. AMELIA, born Nov. 5, 1780; married Anson Cook. 

235. V. NANCY, born 1789; married Norman Spencer; lived in 

Winsted, Conn., and in Ypsilanti, Mich.; they had 
seven children. 

103. CAPTAIN BARNABAS HINSDALE » (Daniel^ Barnabas^ 

Barnabas^ Robert*), son of Deacon Daniel Hinsdale and 
Catherine Curtis, his wife, born at Hartford, Conn., Feb- 
ruary 23, 1737-8; died at Hartford, April 29, 1790, aged 
52 years. He married, about 1761, Magdalen Seymour, 
daughter of Captain Jonathan Seymour and Mary Bull, 
his wife. She died at Hartford, October 17, 1782, aged 
42 years. A stone marks her grave in Centre Cemetery, 
back of First Church, Hartford. In October, 1764, he was 
appointed by the General Assembly of the Colony of 
Connecticut, Surveyor for the County of Hartford. He 
surveyed the land given to South Church, Hartford, by the 
Buckingham heirs. The History of this Church contains 
a fac-simile of his autograph and date of survey, Decem- 
ber 23, 1774. He served in the War of the Revolution; 
was made Ensign, December, 1776, and was Lieutenant 
of 2nd Company, 1st Regiment, May, 1777. He was 
afterwards called Captain. During the Revolutionary 



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War two French officers of Court Rochambeau's army 
entered the house of Barnabas Hinsdale in Hartford, and 
one of them attempted to kiss his daughter. She strug- 
gled away from him, knocking off his chapeau into a kettle 
of water. She was very much frightened, expecting that 
he would kill her at once, but he good naturedly brushed 
off the water and left the house. The above was told to 
Reverend Daniel Butler by his mother, Chloe Hinsdale, 
who saw the occurrence. 

Children : 

236. i. Son; bom 1762; died Aug. 25, 1776, aged 14; buried in 

Centre Cemetery, Hartford. 

237. ii. CHLOE, born 1768; married Henry Butler. 

238. iii EPAPHRAS, born 1769; married twice. 

239. iv. Daughter, married a Mr. Manley, of Sheldon, Vt. 

240. V. MARTHA, born 1773; died at Oyster Bay, N. Y., in 1857; 

unmarried; lived with her brother Horace almost from the 
time of his marriage until her death; a person of strongly 
marked character, very intelligent, and highly educated for 
that time. 

241. vi. CATHERINE, bom December, 1775; married Ichabod 

Plumb. 

242. vii. WILLIAM, died of yeUow fever in New York in 1798. 

243. viii. HORACE SEYMOUR, bom Oct. 7, 1782; married twice. 

104. DANIEL HINSDALE^ (Daniel Barnabas^ Barnabas' 
Robert'), son of Deacon Daniel Hinsdale and Catherine 
Curtis, his wife, born about 1740 at Hartford, married 
Elizabeth, who died May 31, 1819, aged 65. He was a 
member of the first Council of Hartford held June 1, 1784, 
under its first Charter, when General Lafayette was granted 
the freedom of the city. He was living at Hartford Sepem- 
ber 3, 1824, when the General revisited Hartford, but from 
age and infirmity was unable to attend the festivities in 
honor of the General. He was among those paying the 
largest rates for the support of the South Church, Hartford. 
He was a merchant,''and became a stockholder in the first 
woolen mill in America, established at Hartford, and of 
which he was made agent. In January, 1789, the first cloth 
was placed in the New York market. The 4th of the next 
March was the meeting of the Federal Congress. Colonel 
Wadsworth, one of the Delegates from Connecticut, took 
with him an open letter from Daniel Hinsdale to the Presi- 



98 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

dentj accompanied with a piece of cloth for him, and also 
one for his wife, each thirty yards, color, dark brown. 
Of this was made the suit of the President for his inaugu- 
ration. All the members of Congress wore the Hartford 
cloth. As early as 1783, Daniel Hinsdale established a 
woolen factory at or near Hartford. The capital was 
£1,250 in £10 shares. It is asserted that 5,000 yards of cloth 
was made there from September, 1788, to September, 1789. 
Some of this sold at five doUars per yard. Washington 
was much interested in this affair so closely connected with 
the future progress of the country. He ordered a suit of 
broadcloth for himself and a whole piece of "everlasting" 
to make breeches for bis servants. When he received the 
suit he wTote to General Knox that "it exceeds my expec- 
tations." The Hartford grey was a celebrated cloth. 

Daniel Hinsdale was in the West India trade at Middle- 
town, Conn., and became quite wealthy. 

Children, baptized at South Church, Hartford, Conn. : 

244. i. DANIEL, bom Nov. 1, 1781; married twice. 

245. ii. AMELIA, baptized Dec. 9, 1792. 

246. iii. MARIA, baptized July 5, 1795; married Sept. 15, 1817, 

Eleazer Huntington of New York City. 

247. iv. SARAH, born 1796; died Nov. 23, 1820. 

248. V. SALLY, baptized Sept. 7, 1800. 

120. ENSIGN JOSEPH HINSDALE.* (Joseph^ Isaac' Barnabas^ 
Robert'), son of Joseph Hinsdale and Elizabeth Kellogg, 
his wife, born at Canaan, Conn., September 14, 1747, died 
August 18, 1800. He married, October 15, 1772, Hannah 
Bingham,* who was born November 8, 1748, and died July 
18, 1822, a daughter of Daniel Bingham and Hannah 
Conant, his wife. They lived at Bennington, Vt. He was 
in the War of the Revolution; a member of Captain 

*DEACON THOMAS BINGHAM,' baptized in Sheffield, England, June 5, 
1642, died in Windham, Conn., Jan. 16, 1729-30, aged 88 years, and is buried 
there. He married, Dec. 12, 1666, Anna Rudd, daughter of Lieutenant Jon- 
athan Rudd of Saybrook, Conn. She was bom in 1648, and died Aug. 4, 
or 5, 1726. They had eleven children, one of whom was 

THOMAS BINGHAM, JR.,2 bom at Norwich, Conn., Dec, 11, 1667, 
died April 5, 1710. He married, Feb. 17, 1691-2, Hannah Backus, daughter 
of Lieutenant William Backus. Their sixth child was 

JABEZ BINGHAM,' bom at Norwich, Conn., Nov. 20, 1701, died at Sal- 



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Samuel Robinson's Company of Militia in Colonel Samuel 
Herrick's Regiment. His name appears on the pay roll 
for service done the State of Vermont on the alarm which 
commenced October 11, 1780. He was also Ensign in 
the Bennington Company of the 2nd Regiment of MiUtia, 
May 28, 1778. In 1786, he was joint proprietor with 
General Ebenezer Walbridge of the first paper mill 
erected in the State of Vermont. It is supposed that 
he went to Bennington from Hardwick, Mass. 

Children : 

249. i. JOSEPH, bom Oct. 27, 1773; married Joanna Nichols. 

250. ii. HANNAH, bom at Bennington, Vt., March 21, 1775; died 

October, 1776. 

251. iii. DANIEL, bom March 9, 1777; married Polly Briggs. 

252. iv. HANNAH, bom March 17,1779; married Nathaniel Tracy. 

253. V. NORMAN, bom Sept. 4, 1780; married twice. 

254. vi. BINGHAM, bom at Bennington, June 8, 1783; died Oct. 23, 

1807; unmarried. 

255. vii. STEPHEN, (Deacon), bom Feb. 12, 1787; married Han- 

nah Edgerton. 

256. viii. HIRAM, born Dec, 12, 1788; married Roxalany Wal- 

bridge. 

257. ix. ELECTA, bom Feb. 13, 1791; married Jonas Galusha, Jr. 

121. LYDIA HINSDALE 5 (Joseph^ Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert^, 
daughter of Joseph Hinsdale and Elizabeth Kellogg, his 
wife, and twin sister of Mary Hinsdale, born at Canaan, 
Litchfield County, Conn., March 12, 1749, died at Morris- 
town, Vt., April 7, 1825, aged 75. She married, at Canaan, 
April 23, 1772, Ozias Boardman, who was born at Wethers- 
field, Conn., April 16, 1749, and died of small pox in a pest 
house within sight of his home at Canaan, April 11, 1785, 
aged 36. 

He had a short time before his death bought of his brother- 
in-law, Joseph Hinsdale, for $100, a right of land in Morris- 
town, Vt. Mr. Hinsdale, who was a surveyor, having sur- 
veyed the northern part of Vermont, had selected land of 

isbury. Conn., Jan. 30, 1785. He married Bethia Wood, Feb. 8, 1721, 
and had twelve children. Their fourth child was 

DANIEL BINGHAM,* probably bom at Norwich, Conn., July 24, 1728, 
married Hannah Conant, Jan. 13, 1745. They were parents of 

HANNAH BINGHAM,^ bom at Windham, Conn., Nov. 8, 1748, who 
married Ensign Joseph Hinsdale. 

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excellent quality. The wife, Lydia, was now left at the age 
of 35, a widow with four sons, besides one who was born 
57 days after his father's death, and who lived but 19 days. 
Her brother, Mr. Hinsdale, assisted her and aided her in 
educating her boys, especially Elisha, the oldest. In the 
Spring of 1793, the second son, Ozias, then nineteen years 
old, went up alone to the land in Morristown. Only three 
families had wintered there. He hired out to a Mr. Heard, 
about four miles away, but diu"ing the summer went on the 
land and girdled the large trees. He returned to Canaan in 
November, and the next spring, with his brother William, 
then less than nineteen, returned to Morristown, and built 
a shanty on the land. In the spring of 1795, Elisha, with 
his mother and Alfred, the youngest brother, moved to 
Morristown. After the three oldest brothers were married, 
they let their mother decide with which of them she 
would live. She said Elisha had too much public business, 
and could not attend well to his home affairs ; William was 
a good son, but was careless and would leave the bars down, 
exposing the crops; but Ozias always put up the bars and 
so she decided to live with him. She was strictly Puritan 
in her habits; regarding the evening and morning as the 
first day, she would always leave off working at sundown 
on Saturday and resume it at sundown on Sunday. She 
died at the age of 75 at the house of her son Ozias in 
Morristovv^n. She lies buried with her four sons in the old 
cemetery in that town. 

Children, all born at Canaan, Conn. : 

258. i. ELISHA, (Captain), bom Jan. 23, 1773; married Hannah 

Pratt. 

259. ii. OZIAS, born June 4, 1774; married Lydia Whitney. 

260. iii. WILLIAM, bom June 16, 1776; married Anna Town. 

261. iv. ALFRED, bom May 11, 1782; married Lydia Little. 

262. V. Posthumous son, died in infancy. 

122. MARY HINSDALE" (Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert*), 
daughter of Joseph Hinsdale and Elizabeth Kellogg, his 
wife, and twin sister of Lydia Hinsdale, born at Canaan, 
Conn., March 12, 1749, died in 1815. She married Edmund 
Grandey, who died in August, 1826. They were among 
the first settlers in Panton, Vt., in 1784, and were obliged 
to endure many hardships from the native Indians. They 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 101 

were also among the first members of the Baptist Church 
there, and were well to do. Their granddaughter, Mrs. 
Sarah A. Grandey Converse, writes of him: "I can re- 
member my Grandfather Grandey. His head was very 
bald. I well recollect his naming brother Truman's eldest 
daughter Mary Hinsdale. He died very suddenly; was 
found dead in his bed in the morning by his son. Uncle 
Luther, with whom he lived. Grandmother died 11 years 
before." One of their great-grandchildren, a daughter of 
Truman Grandey, now owns the old homestead where 
they first settled. 

Children, probably all born at Canaan, Conn. : 

263. i. POLLY, married Joel Farr of Panton, Vt.; had five child- 

ren, three sons and two daughters. They settled in 
western New York. 

264. ii. LYDIA, married David Holcomb of Panton; moved to 

Canton, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y.; had seven children, four 
sons and three daughters. 

265. iii. RACHEL, married Samuel Shepard of Panton; they 

lived and died in Panton; had three children, two sons 
and one daughter. 

266. iv. JESSE, bom Jan. 28, 1778; married twice. 

267. V. LYMAN, married Rebecca Farrand of Bridport, Vt.; had 

five children, one son and four daughters; he was a 
Congregationalist . 

268. vi. ELIZABETH, married Abel Shepard, brother of Samuel 

Shepard; they lived and died in Panton; had five child- 
ren, two sons and three daughters. 

269. vii. ELIJAH, bom Aug. 25, 1781; married Abigail Chamber- 

lain. 

270. viii. LUTHER, married Mary Wheelock of Bridport, Vt.; no 

chUdren; he was a Congregationalist. 

271. ix. CHLOE, married James BacheUer. 

124. WILLIAM HINSDALE = (Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert'), 

son of Joseph Hinsdale and Elizabeth Kellogg, his wife, 
born at Wethersfield, Conn., February 16, 1752, married, 
June 14, 1781, Sarah Strong, who died November 9, 1799. 

Children : 

272. i. STRONG, born July 31. 1783. 

273. ii. HENRY, born May 9, 1785. 

125. MOSES HINSDALE = (Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert'), 

son of Joseph Hinsdale and Elizabeth Kellogg, his wife, 



102 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

born at Canaan, Conn., May 22, 1754, married, September 
16, 1779, Ruth Lord, of Salisbury, Conn. He lived and 
died at Salisbury. 

Children, bom at Salisbury, Conn. : 

274. i. MOSES, bom June 14, 1780; died Aug. 6, 1783. 

275. ii. BETSEY, bom June 10, 1782; died Sept. 26, 1785. 

276. iii. OLIVIA, bom Sept. 19, 1784; married Jeremiah Dexter. 

277. iv. AMANDA, bom Jan. 15, 1787; died at Salisbury, Oct. 1, 

1820, aged 33; unmarried; buried at Salisbury. 

278. V. TRUMAN, born Oct. 10, 1789; probably died young, aa 

the oldest inhabitant of Salisbury, who was aged 88 in 
1897, had no recollection of such a person. 

127. LUCY HINSDALE « (Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert*), 
daughter of Joseph Hinsdale and Elizabeth KeUogg, his 
wife, born at Canaan, Conn., August 2, 1759, died at 
Morley, St. Lawrence Coimty, N. Y., November 11, 
1852, aged 93. She married, December 23, 1786, Rev- 
erend Justus Byington, who was born at Great 
Barrington, Mass., April 7, 1763, and died at Morley, 
April 22, 1839. He was a soldier in the War of the 
Revolution, serving in the Connecticut Militia imder three 
enlistments, the first being the "New Haven Alarm." He 
was a citizen of Connecticut, Vermont, and New York. 
He became a Methodist minister, and moved to Benning- 
ton, Vt., in October, 1787; thence to Hinesburg, Vt., 
February 14, 1791; thence to Charlotte, Vt., February 24, 
1807, and afterwards settled in Morley, St. Lawrence 
County, N. Y., where he died. He and his wife Lucy both 
lie buried in the village cemetery at Morley. He was a 
pensioner of the Federal Government for services ren- 
dered in the Revolution and his widow also received a 
pension during her life time. 

Children: 

279. i. ANSON, bom Jan. 6, 1788; married twice. 

280. ii. LUCY, bom Dec. 16, 1790; died in Madrid, N. Y., 1854; 

married a Mr. Milliard; had there children, all sons. 

281. iii. ARCHIBALD, bom Sept. 7, 1792; died young. 

282. iv. MILO,bom Aug. 7, 1794; lived and died near Ogden, N. Y. 

283. V. ORILLA, bom Sept. 7, 1796; married WiUiam F. Wicker. 

284. vi. JOHN, (Reverend), bom Oct. 8\ 1798; married twice. 

285. vii. BETSEY, bom Sept. 13, 1800; diedatCerisco, Mich., April 

23, 1885; she was twice married; the name of her second 
husband was Waite. 



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286. viii. LORAIN, born July 10, 1803; died 1808. 

287. ix. JUSTUS, born July 10, 1805; died Aug. 31, 1823. 

288. X. WESLEY, bom Dec. 28, 1807; married. 

128. AARON HINSDALE ' (Joseph^ Isaac' Barnabas' Robert'), 
son of Joseph Hinsdale and Elizabeth Kellogg, his wife, 
born at Canaan, Conn., March 25, 1764; settled at Hines- 
burg, Vt., where he died. May 29, 1816, aged 52. He 
married at Arlington, Vt., February 2. 1790, Lucinda 
Mitchell, who was born at Arlington September 4, 1770> 
and died at Kalamazoo, Mich., March 28, 1851, aged 81. 
His daughter, Mrs. Lucinda Hinsdale Stone, in 1895, 
writes of him as follows: "My father was a great lover of 
animals, and a most humane man about their treatment. 
One pet dog, which I can remember as far back as I can 
remember anything, was named Ponto. He was one of 
the family, and he came to us in a way that illustrates 
my father's character and I think is a trait in all the 
Hinsdales. My father owned mills, and going down to his 
mill one morning, a dog came and pulled at his trousers in 
a very earnest and excited way, then ran down stream, 
looked into the stream, and came back repeating all these 
signs of distress, until he made my father follow him, 
when he saw a child who had fallen into the stream lodged 
against a stone in the middle that prevented his being 
swept down. As soon as he had made my father see the 
child, he ran into the stream and dragged him out through 
the water. The child was not so far gone, but that my 
father, with the help of persons whom he called, resuscitated 
him and restored him to his father, who was a man hi 
my father's employ. A few days after, my father 
heard of this man trying to sell this dog, and my father 
bought the dog and he was my earliest playmate; but 
he immediately dismissed the man from his employ; 
he said he would not have a man in his employ who would 
do so inhuman a thing as that — sell a dog that had saved 
his child." Speaking fm'ther of her father's religious sen- 
timent, Mrs. Stone writes; " He could not receive or 
tolerate the old orthodoxy; he said, whatever be the con- 
sequences, he could not worship or go to church pretending 
to worship, a God who would be less good on the other side 
of the grave than on this side; he did not believe he would 



104 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

send his creatures to hell, and he would not pretend to 
believe it, and as my father was a comeouter, I was told 
many times before I was ten years old by the school child- 
ren, that my father had gone to hell, and I went to sleep 
a thousand times crying at the hell spread out before my 
childish eyes, and my father tossing on its flames. My 
mother did not teach me this, nor was it the belief of the 
family, but it was always what I heard preached at church 
and talked in prayer meeting and revivals. Is it any 
wonder that I am a heretic? I think my father's charac- 
ter in regard to these things was the Hinsdale character 
and I tell you of it as a fact to be gratefully remembered 
in your genealogical research. I remember little un tel- 
lable traits that show me that it was the character be- 
longing to the Hinsdales." 

Children, born at Hinesburg, Vt. : 

289. i. MITCHELL, (Honorable), born Jan. 4, 1791; married 

Dorothy Weed. 

290. ii. CYNTHIA, bom Sept. 16, 1792; married Orin Hosford. 

291. iii. JERUSHA, bom Feb. 14, 1795; married Stephen San- 

ford Tyrrell. 

292. iv. BETSEY, bom Dec. 14, 1796; married Arza Crane Dean. 

293. V. MYRON, bom Feb. 4, 1799; married Emily Kellogg. 

294. vi. CHARLES, bom Feb. 4, 1801; died April 24, 1810. 

295. vii. SOPHIA, bom May 28, 1803; married John Rice. 

296. viii. LOUISA, bom Apr. 4, 1805; married Henry Lewis Fab- 

rique. 

297. ix. SARAH, bom May 18, 1807; married Myron Finney, 

298. X. NANCY, bom Jvme 2, 1809; married twice. 

299. xi. MARY ANN, bom July 14, 1811; married Charles Irish 

Walker. 

300. xii. LUCINDA,bom Sept. 30, 1814; married Reverend James 

Andrus Blinn Stone, D. D. 

129. JACOB HINSDALE^ (Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ RobertO, 
son of Joseph Hinsdale and Elizabeth Kellogg, his wife, 
born at Canaan, Conn., March 23, 1766, settled in St. 
George, Chittenden County, Vt., in 1830. He was a far- 
mer. He married at St. George, Hannah Cook, it being 
the first marriage celebrated in that place. 

Children, born at St. George, Chittenden County, Vt.: 

301. i. GILES SEYMOUR, married Rebecca Hoose. 

302. ii. NORMAN, unmarried. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 105 

303. iii. CORNELIA, married Morrison Baker; died at Morley, 

N. Y., 1854. 

304. iv. GEORGE, unmarried; moved to Michigan at the same time 

with Mitchell Hinsdale and his family, but afterwards 
returned to Vermont. 

130. CHLOE HINSDALE ^ (JosephMsaac^ Barnabas' RobertO, 

daughter of Joseph Hinsdale and EHzabeth Kellogg, his 
wife, born at Canaan, Conn., December 17, 1769, died at 
Vergennes, Vt,. August 27, 1849. She married, as his 
second wife, in 1798, Jeremiah Hurlbut, who was born 
at Canaan, Conn., May 13, 1767, and died at Panton, Vt., 
November 18, 1839, eighth child of Elisha Hurlbut and 
Alta Hugaboom, his wife. His first wife was Abigail 
Dean, who died in 1798. After his second marriage he 
removed 'to Vermont, and lived in Bristol for many- 
years. It is said he wrote his name Holabird at one 
time, but afterward the form Hurlbut was used. 
Jeremiah Hurlbut had one cliild by his first wife. 

Children : 

305. i. HARLEY, born at Canaan, Conn., Jan. 24, 1799; died at Ver- 

gennes, Vt., May 29, 1842; married, first, at Panton, Vt., 
Nov. 20, 1823, Cynthia Blakeley, who died at Panton, 
April 27, 1836; he married second, Dec, 1837, Mrs. Eunice 
M. Webster; he had five children by his first marriage, and 
two by his second. 

306. ii. JACOBHINSDALE,bom June 17,1800; married Betsey V. 

Hatch. 

307. iii. HEMAN, born at Bristol, Vt., Apr., 1802; died young. 

308. iv. ELIZABETH, born at Bristol, Feb., 1804; died young. 

309. V. LUCY, born Mar. 25, 1806; married Ehsha Anson Hyde. 

310. vi. ABIGAIL, bom Jan. 20, 1808; married Thomas Gardner. 

131. RHOD A HINSDALE ' (Jonathan* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Roberti) , 

daughter of Jonathan Hinsdale and Sarah Bernard, his 
wife, born at Lenox, Mass., November 28, 1751, is said to 
have been the first white child born there. She married 
Elihu Parsons, Jr., of Northampton, Mass., who was born 
December 9, 1753, and died at Goshen, Mass., August 25, 
1804. He was the second child of Ehhu Parsons, Sr., of 
Northampton, who was born March 14, 1719, and died 
August 22, 1785, aged 66, and married, June 11, 1750, 
Sarah Edwards, who was born August 25, 1728, the eldest 
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106 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Northampton, who was born October 5, 1703, and Sarah 
Pierpont, his wife. Ehhu Parsons, Jr., bought a farm 
when he settled in Goshen, Mass., in or about 1796, and 
his family lived here. The farm was bought in 1838 by- 
Freeman Sears, who married his granddaughter. All the 
family are buried side by side in the old cemetery at 
Goshen. A silver spoon marked in old-fashioned letters, 
"R. H.," and which once belonged to Rhoda Hinsdale, 
descended to her great-granddaughter Mrs. Edna Sears 
Johnson of Chicago, 111. It is now in the possession of 
Hon. Sanford C. Hinsdale of Denver, Colo. 

Children : 

311. i. ESTHER, bom Nov. 19, 1783; married, May 5, 1813, Eben- 

ezer Healey, Jr. 

312. ii. CLARISSA, born Mar. 26, 1786; died Dec. 16, 1852; un- 

married. 

313. iii. STEPHEN, (Deacon), bom July 12, 1788; married Mary 

Eldredge. 

314. iv. EUNICE, bom June 24, 1791. 

315. V. SARAH, bom Oct. 9, 1799. 

132. DAVID HINSDALE " (Jonathan* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^), 
son of Jonathan Hinsdale and Sarah Bernard, his wife, born 
at Salisbury, Conn., June 30, 1754; died at Pompey, N. Y., 
November 8, 1822, aged 68. He married Farazina 
Bemis, born March 24, 1753, died May 15, 1829. His 
parents removed in his iafancy to Lenox, Mass., where 
they had formerly lived. He settled at Lenox, but re- 
moved in 1787, to Galway, Saratoga County, N. Y.; 
thence in February, 1796, to Pompey, N. Y., where he 
died. Six of his children attended school at Pompey in 
the winter of 1799-1800, taught by Levi Jerome, 
David Hinsdale was a private in Captain Erastus Ser- 
geant's Company; Colonel Benjamin Simond's detach- 
ment of Berkshire County Militia; muster roU dated 
Ticonderoga, February 25, 1777, enlistment to expire 
March 15, 1777; reported on duty cutting wood; also 
same Company and detachment; enlisted December 16, 
1776; discharged March 22, 1777; service ninety-seven 
days at Ticonderoga including seven days (140 miles) 
travel home; also Captain Oliver Belding's Company; 
Colonel John Brown's regiment; enUsted September 21, 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 107 

1777, discharged October 14, 1777; service twenty-four 
days at the Northward; roll sworn to in Berkshire County; 
also Captain Josiah Yale's Company; enlisted October 
12, 1781; discharged October 20, 1781; service twelve 
days including travel (160 miles) out and home; com- 
pany marched from Lee and Lenox to Stillwater, October 
12, 1781, by order of Brigadier-General Rossiter on an 
alarm. 

Children : 

316. i. MOSES, bom Oct. 23, 1778; married twice. 

317. ii. CHAUNCEY, bom June 10, 1780; married Susanna Briggs. 

318. iii. ASAHEL, bom Feb. 29, 1782; married Hadassah Clapp. 

319. iv. DAVID, bom Mar. 24, 1784; married Mary McCracken. 

320. V. SALLY, bom Jan. 26, 1786; married John Clapp. 

321. vi. An infant, bom at Galway, N. Y.; died young. 

322. vii. ELIZABETH, born at Galway, Mar. 19, 1789; died May 

27, 1871; married, Feb. 10, 1807, Augustus Tyler, at 
Pompey, N. Y. 

323. viii. JONATHAN, born Mar. 13, 1791; married twice. 

324. ix. POLLY, bom at Galway, Mar. 3, 1793; died June 27, 1802. 

325. X. STEPHEN, born at Galway, June 2, 1795; died Aug. 6, 1816. 

326. xi. IRA, bom June 26, 1797; married Hannah Stephens. 

327. xii. ELI, bom at Pompey, Dec. 27, 1799; died July 24, 1803. 

140. CAPTAIN NATHAN FRARY"* (Mehitable Dickinson* Mehi- 
table Hinsdale^ SamueP Robert^, son of Nathaniel Frary 
and Mehitable Dickinson, his wife, born Apr. 24, 1719, died 
May 20, 1794. He married, first, June 1, 1749, Elizabeth 
Barnard, born at Roxbury, 1731, died at Deerfield, about 
1788, daughter of Ebenezer Barnard and Elizabeth Foster, 
his wife. He married, second, December 20, 1789, 
Eleanor Warriner, who died September 7, 1819, aged 
83. He was a Corporal in the French and Indian Wars, 
a Captain in the Militia, and a member of Captain Isaac 
Newton's Company in the Revolutionary service. He was 
a selectman in 1768. He had nine children, one of whom, 
Electa, married the Reverend Justin Parsons, the grand- 
father of Levi Parsons Morton, ex- Vice-President of the 
United States. 

Children: 

328. i. TIMOTHY, born at Deerfield, Dec. 14, 1750; died about 1825 

without issue. 



108 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

329. ii. NATHAN, bom at Deerfield, Dec. 4, 1752; died there Apr. 

3, 1813; married, first, Eunice Frary of Southampton, 
who died Apr. 29, 1818; married, second, Dec. 1, 1811, 
Mary Bacon, widow of Nathan Priest of Northfield, 
Mass., who died Dec. 25, 1842. 

330. iii. LUCY, born at Deerfield, Dec. 6, 1754; married, Jan. 24, 

1774, Joseph Stebbins of Deerfield. 

331. iv. ELIZABETH, bom at Deerfield, Aug. 23, 1756; married, 

Jan. 22, 1778, Ebenezer Childs of Shelbume, Mass. 

332. V. REBECCA, born Jan. 7, 1758; published, Dec. 17, 1779, 

to Abner Sheldon of Conway, Mass. 

333. vi. ELECTA,bom at Deerfield, Nov. 28, 1759; died at Goshen, 

Jan. 30, 1824; married, Oct. 30, 1788, Reverend Justin 
Parsons. 

334. vii. POLINA, born Oct. 10, 1761; married, Apr. 10, 1786, 

Joseph Clary of Conway, Mass. 

335. viii. MEHITABEL, born Mar. 9,1763; married Doctor William 

Kitterage of Pittsfield, Mass. 

336. ix. TIRZA, baptized Mar. 25, 1766; probably died young. 

15L REBECCA SHELDON* (Benjamin Sheldon* Mary Hinsdale' 
SamueP Roberti), daughter of Benjamin Sheldon and Mary- 
Strong, his wife, born in 1730 at Northampton, Mass., died 
at Hadley, Mass., April, 1811. She married in 1746, Ben- 
jamin Parsons, of Northampton, son of Captain Ebenezer 
Parsons and Mercy Stebbins, his wife. He was born at 
Northampton, October 21, 1723. He was a soldier in the 
French and Indian War, and served in Captain William 
Lyman's Company at Fort Massachusetts from November 
16, 1747, to January 10, 1748. He died before February 
3, 1778, when letters of administration upon his estate, 
which was a large one for that time, were granted to his wife 
Rebecca and son Ebenezer. In the administration papers 
he is styled as "of Chesterfield Gore." 

Children: 

337. i. JERUSHA. born Sept. 23, 1746; married first, a Mr. Stone; 

second, a Mr. Brown; third, a Mr. Lyman. 

338. ii. EBENEZER, born Dec. 26, 1751; lived at Hadley, Mass. 

339. iii. MERCY, bom Nov. 30, 1753; married J. Buckingham of 

Goshen, Mass. 

340. iv. HANNAH, bom June 30, 1755; married Colonel Nehemiah 

Lyman. 

341. V. SUSAN, born 1757. 

342. vi. JUSTIN, (Reverend), bom July 19, 1759; married four 

times. 



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343. vii. SILAS, (Reverend), born 1761. 

344. viii. SOLOMON, bom 1763; lived at Goshen, Mass. 

345. ix. REBECCA, bom 1765; married Mr. Naramore. 

346. X. BENJAMIN, (Reverend), bom about 1767. 

157. SAMUEL HINSDALE, JR.* (Samuel* Mehuman' Samuel' 

Robert!), son of Samuel Hinsdale and his first wife, Rebecca 
Leonard, born August 22, 1741, died May 10, 1825. He 
married January 8, 1772, Mary Stebbins, daughter of Ben- 
jamin Stebbins of Belchertown, Mass. She died April 10, 
1830, aged 81. The high case of drawers which she had 
on her marriage, and which had then been in the family 
for forty years, is now in Memorial Hall, Deerfield. 
Children : 

347. i. DIANA, bom Nov. 6, 1775; married, Dec. 20, 1798, Joseph 

Battis. 

348. ii, LURANA, bom Mar. 4, 1780; married Nathan Bridge. 

349. iii. MARY, bom May 9, 1782; married Samuel Allen. 

350. iv. SAMUEL, bom Jan. 25, 1784; married SaUy Clark. 

351. V. PAMELIA, bom Dec. 7, 1786; married, Jan. 31, 1806, 

Onesimus Nash. 

158. REBECCA HINSDALE' (Samuel* Mehuman' Samuel' Rob- 

ert^), daughter of Samuel Hinsdale and his first wife, Re- 
becca Leonard, born July 8, 1743, died November 16, 1773, 
aged 30. She married, July 3, 1760, Deacon Jonathan 
Arms. He married, second, December 7, 1774, Eunice 
Lyman. He died February 13, 1819. Deacon Jonathan 
and Rebecca Arms had six children. He was a blacksmith, 
and lived on lot 30 in Deerfield; was deacon of the church; 
was town treasurer 1781-89, and assessor in 1796. 

Children: 

352. i. REBECCA, bom Aug. 29, 1761; died 1785; married Oct. 

12, 1783, Edward BiUings of Greenfield, Mass. 

353. ii. MIRANDA, bom Oct. 12, 1764; married Solomon Williams. 

354. iii. JONATHAN, (Captain), bom Jan. 23, 1766; died July 7. 

1805; married July 26, 1787, Sarah Wells, daughter of 
Ebenezer Wells; blacksmith, and Captain of Artillery; 
settled in Charlestown, N. H.; afterwards removed to 
Montpelier, Vt., in 1815; had five children. 

355. iv. SOPHIA, bom Mar. 10, 1769; married. May 4, 1788, Cot- 

ton Partridge of Hatfield, Mass. 

356. V. MIRIAM, bom Aug. 7, 1771; died Apr. 4, 1794. 

- 357. vi. LUCINDA, bom Feb. 16, 1773; died July 7, 1783. 



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161. CORPORAL ARIEL HINSDALE » (Samuel Mehuman' 
SamueP Robert^), son of Samuel Hinsdale and his first wife, 
Rebecca Leonard, born September 11, 1750, married, 
January 13, 1774, Thankful Severance, born January 
17, 1756, died December 24, 1829, aged 74, daughter of 
Jonathan Severance. He was in the War of the Revolu- 
tion, a Corporal at the battle of Lexington. The "Massa- 
chusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution" 
gives the following: 

"Ariel Hinsdale of Greenfield, Mass. Corporal of Capt. 
Agrippa Wells' Co. of Minute Men, Col. Samuel Williams' 
Regt., which marched Apr. 20, 1775, in response to the 
Alarm of Apr. 19, 1775; left place of rendezvous May 
6, 1775 and returned home; service 15 days. Also Private 
Capt. Agrippa Wells' Co., Col. Porter's Regt.; marched 
from home July 9, 1777; enlisted July 10, 1777; dis- 
charged Aug. 12, 1777; service 38 days, including travel 
(80 miles) home ; Company marched to reinforce Northern 
Army after the evacuation of Ticonderoga. Roll sworn 
to at Deerfield." 

Children : 

358. i. REBECCA, born Oct. 14, 1774; married Thomas Smead. 

359. ii. DARIUS, bom July 11, 1776; married Electa Graves. 

360. iii. THANKFUL, bom Aug. 27, 1778; married a Mr. Hawkins. 

361. iv. VIOLINTHA, born July 29, 1780; married Joseph Otis. 

362. V. SARAH, bom Oct. 31,1782; married Ozias Smead, bom 

Apr. 10, 1781; she was his second wiie. 

363. vi. CLARISSA, married, Dec, 1816, KelseyGilmore of Boston. 

364. vii. DOROTHY, married, Dec., 1815, Sisson Chase of Bristol, 

Conn. 

365. viii. MIRANDA, bom Feb. 10, 1785; married Ephraim McHard. 

366. ix. FANNY, married, August, 1820, Hart Larrabee. 

367. X. LUCRETIA. unmarried. 



162. DIANA HINSDALE « (Samuel* Mehuman' SamueP Robert^) , 
daughter of Samuel Hinsdale and his first wife, Rebecca 
Leonard, born October 9, 1752, died January 25, 1833, 
aged 80 years. She married, September 27, 1774, Colonel 
Elijah Dwight of Belchertown, born January 4, 1749, 
died September 13, 1795, aged 46 years. She married, 
second, May 23, 1797, Doctor Estes Howe. She had by 
her first marriage nine children ; none by the second. She 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 111 

was a fine looking, strong-minded, anoiable, pious woman, 
who lived and died without an enemy. 

Children, not in order of birth: 

368. i. JOSIAH, (Doctor), a graduate of Yale College, 1794; studied 

medicine, and settled in Portsmouth, N. H. 

369. ii. GAMALIEL, a merchant; some time a resident of Boston. 

370. iii. LYMAN, died young. 

37L iv. ELIJAH, bom 1779; a merchant; died in Amherst, Mass., 
Oct. 1819, aged 40 years. 

372. V. JOHN. 

373. vi. PLINY. 

374. vii. LEON.ARD. 

375. viii. MARTHA, bom atBelchertown.Mass., Jan. 1, 1783, died 

June 30, 1844; married Jime 23, 1801, Hezekiah Wright 
Strong, bom Dec. 24, 1768; died at Troy, N. Y., Oct. 7, 
1848, aged 79 years; graduated at Yale College, 1800; a 
lawyer at Deerfield and afterwards at Amherst, Mass., 
where he was for several years Postmaster; they had six 
children. 

376. ix. SUSANNA D., married Mason Shaw, a lawyer, formerly of 

Castine, Me., in 1852; resided at Belchertown, Mass. 

168. JOHN HINSDALE, JR.^ (John^ Mehuman^ SamueP RobertO, 
son of John Hinsdale and Hannah Arms, his wife, born 
January 18, 1738, died October, 1788. He married, 1782, 
Eleanor, widow of Joel Munn. She married, third, August 
14, 1794, Samuel Eustace, and died December, 1797. John 
Hinsdale was a soldier in the French and Revolutionary 
Wars. He was with Colonel George Monroe, who held 
Fort William Henry until the surrender to Montcalm 
August 9, 1757. On April 20, 1775, when the news came 
that Gage had fired on the Colonists, he joined a company 
of Deerfield patriots, and that time served fourteen days. 
He also served in the army in 1780 and 1781. His revo- 
lutionary record is as follows: 

"John Hinsdale, of Deerfield, Private Capt. Jonas 
Locke's Co. of Minute-men, Col. Williams' Regt., which 
marched on the Alarm of Apr. 19, 1775; service 14 days; 
also, descriptive list of men, raised to reinforce the Conti- 
nental Army for the term of 6 months, agreeable to resolve 
of June 5, 1880; returned as received of Justin Ely, Com- 
misioner by Brig, Gen. John Glover, at Springfield, July 8, 
1780; aged 43 years; stature 5 ft 6 inch, complection ruddy; 
engaged for town of Deerfield; arrived at Springfield July 



112 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

7, 1780; marched to Camp July 8, 1780, undercommand of 
Ebenezer Kent, Esq.; also pay-roll for 6 months men, be- 
longing to the town of Deer field, raised for service in the 
Continental Army diu'ing 1780; marched July 5, 1780; 
service 5 months \7}4 days including travel (150 miles) 
home." 

] 69. ELISHA HINSDALE = (John* Mehuman^ SamueP Robert^ , 
son of John Hinsdale and Hannah Arms, his wife, born June 
30, 1741, died October 25, 1794. He married, first, Febru- 
ary, 1764, Sarah Atherton, daughter of Shubal Atherton. 
She died December 7, 1764, aged 18 years. He married, 
second, July 3, 1771, Katherine Severance, daughter of 
Martin Severance. She died April 8, 1785, aged 37 years. 

He married, third, Huldah ; she died December 18, 

1799, aged 49 years. He served in the French War under 
Major General Amherst in the campaign of 1760 to its close, 
when Montreal was taken by the English, September 8th 
of that year. 

Children;: 

By his first wife, Sarah Atherton. 

377. i. SARAH, bom Nov. 25, 1764; probably died Nov. 3, 1774. 

By his second wife, Ivatherine Severance. 

378. ii. HANNAH, bom July 2, 1772. 

379. iii. CATHERINE, bom Mar. 29, 1775; died at Shelbume. July 

7, 1777. 

380. iv. CATHERINE, bom Aug. 8, 1777; died Nov. 11, 1796. 

381. V. SARAH, bom Aug. 12, 1780; married, probably, Mar. 19, 

1800, Nathaniel Farrow. 

382. vi. ELISHA, bom Mar. 25, 1783; died Sept. 9, 1797. 

By his third wife, Huldah . 

383. vii. LUCY, bom Oct. 2, 1786; probably married Christopher 

Munn. 

1 70. HANNAH HINSDALE « (John* Mehuman^ SamueP Robert^ , 
daughter of John Hinsdale and Hannah Arms, his wife, born 
June 10, 1743, married, January, 1763, Simeon Stebbins, of 
Conway, born 1736. He married, second, 1806, Margaret. 

Children : 

384. i. SIMEON, baptized Sept. 9, 1763; died, perhaps, Sept. 13, 1763. 

385. ii. ERASTUS, bom Jan. 28, 1765; was of Conway in 1792. 

386. iii. ANNA, bom Mar. 1, 1767; married Apr. 15, 1788. Eleazer 

Hawks. 



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387. iv. SIMEON, baptized June 25, 1769; died before June 14, 1773. 

388. V. CLARISSA, bom Aug. 23, 1771 ; married Nov. 29, 1797, John 

Anns of Brattleboro, Vt. 

389. vi. EXPERIENCE, bom Oct. 31,1773; married, 1796, Calvin 

Dickinson. 

390. vii. SIMEON, born Mar. 20, 1776; married Milicent Bardwell, 

daughter of Gideon Bardwell; raovedJWest. 

391. viii. CONSIDER, born Aug. 31, 1778; died young. 

392. ix. HANNAH, bom Jan. 1, 1782; married Emerson Crosby. 

393. X. CONSIDER, born June 5, 1784. 

394. xi. CYNTHIA, bom Oct. 30, 1786. 

395. xii. ESTHER, bom Oct. 3, 1789. 

396. xiii. RUFUS, bom Sept. 17, 1792. 

397. xiv. ROBERT, born Jan. 5, 1796. 



171. ABIGAIL HINSDALE " (John* Mehuman^ SamueP Roberti), 

daughter of John Hinsdale and Hannah Arms, his wife, 
born December 6, 1745, died Aug. 8, 1806. In 1783 she was 
the wife of Elias Norton, an adventurer, with whom she 
hved but a short time; she was a widow in 1790; Uved on 
lot 14 in Deerfield and also on lot 20. She left a consider- 
able estate for public uses; her benefactions are noted in 
her epitaph, as follows : 

"Her professions of Religion, 
Her Donations to the Church of Christ, 
To Deerfield Academy 
And to the females of the Rising Generation 
Show her benevolence 
And speak her Praise. 
Go thou and do Ukewise." 

172. JACOB HINSDALE « (Jacob' Jacob* Barnabas" Barnabas^* 

Roberto, son of Captain Jacob Hinsdale, Jr. and his first 
wife, Mary Brace, born April 18, 1759, died October 26, 
1839, at Braceville, Trumbull County, 0., aged 80. He 
married, January 16, 1782, Sally Barber, who died at 
Braceville, March 10, 1843, aged 80. He lived on his 
father's farm at Canaan, Conn., until he went to Trum- 
bull County, O., in June, 1834. They had four children, 
perhaps more. His son Jacob died in Lorain County. 
A grandson Edwin was living in 1883 near the village of 
Wellington, O. 



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Children: 

398. i. JACOB. 

399. ii. ABEL. 

400. iii. ALMIRA. 

401. iv. SALLIE. 

173. CAPTAIN ELISHA HINSDALE « (Jacob' Jacob^ Barnabas' 
Barnabas^ Robert^), son of Captain Jacob Hinsdale, Jr. 
and his first wife, Mary Brace, born at Harwinton, Conn., 
February 28, 1761, died at Norton, (then Medina County, 
but now) Summit Co., O., June 22, 1827, aged 67. He mar- 
ried, first, November 16, 1783, Asenath Barnes, who 
died March 16, 1800, aged 40, leaving five little boys, one 
of them only five days old. He married, second, January 
20, 1801, Elizabeth Holcomb, born July 23, 1769, 
daughter of Joseph Holcomb of Granby, Conn. She 
bore him tln-ee children and died August 27, 1846, 
aged 77. When a young boy Captain Elisha Hins- 
dale went with his father's family to Canaan, Conn., 
where he was brought up. He learned the trade of a black- 
smith; At sixteen years of age he enlisted at Canaan in the 
Continental army, and served three years in the Central 
army between New York and the Potomac, in the darkest 
period of the war. He was under the command of La 
Fayette and wintered at Valley Forge. When he had 
served three years he was taken sick, and his father went 
for him and brought him home. It is supposed that thus 
his constitution was so broken down that he was unable to 
do any hard work. So he learned the jeweler's trade, 
serving his apprenticeship at Litchfield, when the elms were 
planted in that village. He followed this business for a 
few years in Canaan, when his shop was burned with his 
tools. Being a mechanical genius who could do anything, 
he went with his brother, Deacon Abel Hinsdale, to Tor- 
rington. Conn., in 1799, and carried on the axe and scythe 
business and general blacks mithing there. They were lo- 
cated between Winsted and what is now Torrington village, 
on the western branch of the Naugatuck River, about three 
miles north of Torrington Hollow, at a place once called 
the Axe Factory, and later the Tannery, and Appley's 
Mills; it seems to have been called Holbrook's Mills also. 
Here the Hinsdales made the celebrated "clover-leaf axes" 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 115 

(from the trademark), the fame of which preceded Captam 
Hinsdale to Ohio. In 1805 and 1806 Captain Elisha Hins- 
dale represented Torrington in the Legislature. A bundle 
of his old commissions, printed on the coarse, stiff brown 
paper of the times, is still in existence. His captain's com- 
mission, signed "Samuel Huntington, Esquire, Captain 
General and Commander in Chief over the State of Connecti- 
cut, in America," bears date of May, 1794. In 1816 Captain 
Elisha Hinsdale sold his lands in Torrington to his brother, 
Deacon Abel Hinsdale, and removed west, having obtained 
land in the Western Reserve. Orcutt in his "History of 
Torrington" says: "From that day all business interests 
in that locality have taken the down-hill course, until only 
one old mill building is left and that looks as if ready to 
tumble down any day." Captain Elisha Hinsdale removed 
with his wife and children to Ohio, and, the year following, 
settled at Norton, in what is now Summit County. He 
made the journey to the West with a wagon drawn by two 
yoke of oxen, in eight weeks. In Ohio, Captain Hinsdale 
was a justice of the peace as long as health would permit. 
His justice commissions bear the dates, October 9, 1819, 
November 11, 1822, and November 21, 1825, and are signed 
respectively by Ethan A. Brown, Allen Trimble, and Jere- 
miah Morrow, Governors. He was truly a peace-maker and 
in life was universally respected. He was known in Connecti- 
cut as Captain ; in Ohio, as Esquire Hinsdale. His son Albert 
wrote of him, in the pamphlet which was published in 1883: 
" About 1822 he was overtaken by a disease that had been 
on his track for several years, supposed to be gravel or stone, 
but which was probably a cancerous tumor on the neck of 
the bladder. He was unable to ride, or to walk only with 
a cane, in consequence; but he made all our boots and shoes, 
did all our mechanical work, and some blacksmithing. He 
was at times subject to great distress, which increased un- 
til he died, Jime 22, 1827, at the age of sixty-seven." 
"Elisha Hinsdale was about six feet tall; of good form and 
fine physical development; rather inclined to corpulency 
and weighed 200 pounds; good-looking, with a remarkably 
fine skin; and when sixty years old had fresh cheeks, and 
skin as fair as a child's. He had good judgment; was very 
prudent; had fine tact; and was very orderly in his habits; 



116 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

very honest and conscientious; liberal; of amiable dispo- 
sition; social; and very careful not to give offense. I don't 
know that he ever had an enemy." 

Ehzabeth Holcomb, his second wife, was one of a family 
of several children. Her family hved to be old. Her 
father died of cancer in the breast, and she was troubled 
with a cancerous humor of the face. She was of good size 
and figure, strong and vigorous constitution, very energetic, 
industrious, and frugal in her habits, always looking weU 
to the welfare of her family. She was careful of the sick 
and good to the poor. After her husband's death she was 
a good deal broken up, and more so after the death of her 
children. At times she was quite discontented and quite 
imhappy; she was much disposed to borrow trouble. She 
died suddenly of heart disease at the home of her son, Al- 
bert Hinsdale. 

Children : 

By his first wife, Asenath Barnes. 

402. i. HORACE, bom Feb. 11. 1786; married Lois Hitchcock. 

403. ii. HERMAN, bom Mar. 31, 1789; married Lucy Drake. 

404. iii. ELISHA, bom Apr. 23, 1791; married OpheUa Whiting, 

405. iv. JULIUS, bom May 2,1795; died at Painesville,0., Aug. 24, 

1818, aged 23; removed to Ohio with the family, driving 
the team; staid at home one year; being a joiner and 
finding no work near home, he went to Painesville to 
work at his trade, where he died of [malarial fever; he 
had a fine figure, was particularly good looking, of a very 
amiable disposition; was a young man of fine promise. 

406. v. SHERMAN, bom March, 12, 1800; married Eliza Oviatt. 

By his second wife, Elizabeth Holcomb. 

407. vi. ASENATH, bom Apr. 28, 1803; married Edward Spicei. 

408. vii. ALBERT, bom July 18, 1809; married Clarinda Elvira 

Eyles. 

409. viii. GEORGE, bom at Brace\alle, O., Mar. 10, 1817; was of 

good size and figure, apparently of good constitution, 
amiable disposition, orderly in his habits; very fond of 
books, an excellent mechanic, and a joiner by trade; 
when taken sick he had on hand the jobs of building the 
Congregational and Disciple churches in Wads worth, 
of which he was the architect ; his was the first funeral 
held in the latter; when in apparent health he was 
taken with hemorrhage of the lungs in Aug. 1841, and 
died of consumption Mar. 31, 1842; he was a young 
man of fine promise and much respected. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 117 

175. DEACON ABEL HINSDALE' (Jacob' Jacob* Barnabas' 
Barnabas^ Robert^), son of Captain Jacob Hinsdale, Jr. and 
his first wife, Mary Brace, born at Canaan, Conn., July 19, 
1765, died at Torrington, Conn., April 9, 1851. He married 
Mary Knapp, daughter of Reverend Joshua Knapp of 
Winchester, Conn. She was born December 8, 1772 and 
died at Torrington, October 10, 1857. He was a deacon of 
the church at Torrington Green from 1802 to his death, a 
period of 49 years. He removed from Canaan to Torring- 
ton in 1799, with his brother. Captain Elisha Hinsdale, and 
engaged with him in the scythe manufacturing and black- 
smithing business. He was admitted to the church at Tor- 
rington, November 17, 1799. Was a member of the Con- 
necticut Legislature from May, 1815, to 1821. When his 
brother Elisha moved west, in 1816, Abel bought his land. 
The parting of the brothers on the top of the hiU on the 
Goshen road above the axe factory, in 1816, the one to 
plunge into the wilds of the west, the other to remain 
under the old roof-tree, is said to have been exceedingly 
affecting. Deacon Abel Hinsdale was very highly spoken of 
by the older people who remembered him. 

Children: 

410. i. LOPHELIA, bom July 27, 1795; died at Torrington, Conn., 

Sept. 25, 1863. 

411. ii. LORAIN, (Deacon), bom Sept. 19, 1801 ; married Aurora 

J. Slater. 

412. iii. OILMAN, (Deacon), born Dec. 26, 1803; married four 

times. 

413. iv. ABEL KNAPP, (Reverend), bom Oct. 6, 1807; married 

Sarah Clark. 

177. WHITING HINSDALE » (Jacob"* Jacob* Barnabas' Barna- 
bas^ Robert^), son of Captain Jacob Hinsdale, Jr. and his 
first wife, Mary Brace, born October 17, 1773, removed to 
Dutchess County, N. Y. He was of Taghkanick, N. Y., 

and died in 1845. He married, first, Rockfeller; 

second. Amy Briggs. 

Children : 

414. i. HARRY, married; no children. 

415. ii. STEPHEN, married. 

416. iii. CHARLES, married. 

417. iv. A daughter, married Henry Tanner; had one son. 



118 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

179. CAPTAIN ELIZUR HINSDALE • (Jacob* Jacob* Barnabas' 
Barnabas' Robert^), son of Captain Jacob Hinsdale, Jr. and 
his first wife, Mary Brace, born at Canaan, Conn., May 27, 
1783, died at Leroy, N. Y., August 20, 1860, aged 77. He 
married, first, at Goshen, Conn., August 1, 1804, Olive 
DouD, who was born at Goshen, January 13, 1785, and died 
at Winchester, Conn., October 28, 1816. He married, 
second, at New Milford, Conn., February 2, 1818, Betsey 
M. Hull, widow of a Mr. Everett, who was born Septem- 
ber, 1783, and died at Leroy, N. Y., November 23, 1827. 
He married, third, at Middletown, Conn., November 19, 
1829, Hannah Johnson, widow of Moses Sage, who was 
born at Middletown, May 5, 1792, and died at Leroy, N. 
Y., April 27, 1863, aged 71. He carried on an axe and scythe 
business at Winsted, Conn., and removed from there to 
Leroy, Genesee County, N. Y. His second wife and two 
children were burned with his dwelling house in 1827. 

Children : 

By his first wife, Olive Doud. 

418. i. MORRIS, bom May 19, 1805; married Martha Wade. 

419. ii. MARY ELIZABETH, born Mar. 10, 1807; married Augustus 

Porter Haskell. 

420. iii. OLIVE MARANA, born July 6, 1812; married Israel Daven- 

port Janes. 

421. iv. CHARLOTTE MARIA, born Aug. 30, 1814; married twice. 

By his second wife, Betsey M. Hull. 

422. v. HARRIET HULL, born Nov. 15, 1818; married Hiram W. 

Haskell. 

423. vi. JANE, bom at East Bloomfield, N. Y., Nov. 22, 1820; 

burned to death with her mother and sister Melinda at 
Leroy, N. Y., Nov. 23, 1827, aged 7. 

424. vii. CAROLINE BOND, bom at Leroy, N. Y., Sept. 3, 1822; 

died there July 22, 1840, aged 17. 

425. viii. MELINDA GRAHAM, born at Leroy, N. Y., Nov. 29, 

1824; burned to death with her mother and sister Jane 
at Leroy, Nov. 23, 1827, aged 3. 
By his third wife, Hannah Johnson. 

426. ix. ANNA JOHNSON, born Aug. 21, 1830; married Edward 

Fowler Fish. 

427. X. ELIZUR BRACE, (Judge), bom Dec. 4, 1831. " 

428. xi. JANE CRAWFORD, bom Sept. 25, 1833; married Jared 

Chittenden. 

429. xii. WILLIAM RUSSELL, bom Jan. 23, 1836; married twice. 

430. xiii. HANNAH BULKLEY, born at Leroy, N. Y., Oct. 29, 

1837; died June 16, 1842, aged 4. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 119 

182. EZRA HINSDALE" (Ezra« Jacob* Barnabas' Barnabas^ 
Robert!), son of Sergeant Ezra Hinsdale and Sarah Hop- 
kins, his wife, born February 3, 1766, married, first, Febru- 
ary 2, 1791, Tryphenia Frisbie, who died June 29, 1799. 
He married, second, February 25, 1800, Betsey McNary. 
He removed to Pennsylvania. 

Children: 

By his first wife, Tryphenia Frisbie. 

431. i. HOSMER, born May 26, 1793. 

432. ii. WOLCOTT, bom July 10, 1795; married Hannah Jones. 

433. iii. WYLLYS, born May 12, 1797. 

By his second wife, Betsey McNary. 

434. iv. TRYPHENIA, born June 1, 1801. 

435. V. POLLY, born July 17, 1802. 

436. vi. PHILENA, bom Mar. 10, 1804. 

437. vii. EZRA SHERMAN, born Feb. 7, 1806. 

438. viii. MARTIN, bom Jan. 7, 1810. 

439. ix. GEORGE SHELDON, born Nov. 22, 1812. 

440. X. ELIZABETH, born Feb. 19, 1816. 

441. xi. MARIA. 

184. HANNAH HINSDALE « (Ezra= Jacob* Barnabas' Barnabas' 

Robert!), daughter of Sergeant Ezra Hinsdale and Hannah 
Hopkins, his wife, born at Harwinton, Conn., December 8, 
1769, died at Hartford, Conn. She married, first, Silas 
Andrus of Harwinton, and moved to Hartford, spending 
most of her fife there. She married, second, a Mr. Wad- 
AMS. She married, third, Asa Hubbard of Bloomfield, 
Conn. After his death she returned to Hartford, where 
she ended her days with her daughter, Mrs. Chalker. 

Children: 

By her first husband, Silas Andrus. 

442. i. SARAH, married a Mr. Chalker; lived in Hartford, Conn.; 

had several children. 

443. ii. SILAS, of Hartford. 

185. :^ROSWELL HINSDALE « (Ezra^ Jacob^ Barnabas' Barna- 

bas' Roberto, son of Sergeant Ezra Hinsdale and Sarah 
Hopkins, his wife, born August 26, 1772, married, 
August 10, 1798, Sybel Winchell. They lived to old age 
at Harwinton, Conn., and died there. 

Children : 

444. i. SALLY, bom May 26, 1803; died Feb. 25, 1826. 



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445. ii. EMILY, bom May 28, 1810; married Alvah ScoviUe. 

446. iii. ROSWELL HOOKER, bom June 4, 1814; died young. 

187. LYDIA HINSDALE" (Ezra'* Jacob* Barnabas'" Barnabas^ 

Roberto, daughter of Sergeant Ezra Hinsdale and Sarah 
Hopkins, his wife, born April 23, 1777, died January 18, 
1853. She married, February 3. 1804, Benajah Hopkins, 
who was born October 18, 1776. 

Children : 

447. i. JULIA, bom Feb. 21, 1806; married Ezra Brown; had a 

numerous family. 

448. ii. MARVIN, bom May 31, 1808; married and lived in Harwin- 

ton. 

449. iii. ESTHER, born July 7, 1810; married Isaac Frisbie; had 

children. 

450. iv. AUGUSTA, bom Mar. 9, 1812; married Oct. 11, 1841, Joel 

Root; lived at Bristol, Conn.; had one son who died in 
infancy. 

451. V. EMELINE, bom Sept. 14, 1816; married Henry Catlin; had 

three sons. 

188. HULDAH HINSDALE « (Ezra= Jacob* Barnabas^ Barnabas' 

Robert!), daughter of Sergeant Ezra Hinsdale and Sarah 
Hopkins, his wife, born June 15, 1779, married Norman 
Barber of Harwinton. 

Children, lived at Harwinton, Conn.: 

452. i. ALMIRA, married a Mr. Barnes; died of consumption. 

453. ii. MARILLA. married Jason Skinner; died of consmnption. 

454. iii. HINSDALE, died of consumption, aged 19. 

189. ERASTUS HINSDALE « (Ezra= Jacob* Barnabas^ Barnabas' 

Roberto, son of Ezra Hinsdale and Sarah Hopkins, his wife, 
born at Harwinton, Conn., January 7, 1782, died in 1829 
or 1830 at Passaic Falls, N. J., from a fractured skull caused 
by a fall. He was a cripple from a fever sore on his leg 
when a boy. While young he was apprenticed to a mer- 
chant tailor. He married in Litchfield County, Conn., Lois 
Carr widow of a Mr. Philps, with two children. About 1809 
or 1810 he removed from their home in Litchfield County, 
to Kinderhook, or Stuyvesant's Landing, Columbia County, 
N. Y., accompanied by his wife, Lois, and one child, Sarah. 
He followed his trade of itinerant tailor during his residence 
at Kinderhook, a period of about ten years. Thence he 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 121 

moved to Manchester, Dutchess County, N. Y., in 1820, 
continuing at his trade. In 1826 "he 'removed with his 
family to Passaic Falls, N. J., in which place he resided 
until his death. 
Children: 

455. i. SARAH, bom 1807; died at Rochester, N.Y., 1852; married 

Alonzo P. Ketchum of Rochester. 

456. ii. BENNETT HOPKINS, born 1810 at Kinderhook, N. Y.; 

died at Fayetteville, N. C. 

457. iii. CHARLES CHAUNCEY, born May 4, 1813; married twice. 

458. iv. EZRA M., bom May 14, 1816; married Esther Valentine. 

459. V. WILLIAM NELSON, bom 1819 at Kinderhook; died 1845, 

at Newark, N. J. 

460. vi. ANDREW, bom 1822 at Poughkeepsie.N.Y.; died 1838, in 

Ulster Co., N. Y., from an accident in jumping from a 
pile of tan bark. 

190. MARILLA HINSDALE « (Ezra« Jacob^ Barnabas' Barnabas^ 

Roberti), daughter of Sergeant Ezra Hinsdale and Sarah 
Hopkins, his wife, died at Burlington, April 27, 1871. She 
married, first, in 1805, Joseph Hopkins, brother of Benajah 
Hopkins, husband of her sister Lydia. He died September, 
1820. She married, second, December, 1839, William 
Elton of Burlington. She had no children by her second 
husband. 

Children : 

By her first husband, Joseph Hopkins. 

461. i. MARTIN HINSDALE, bom Oct. 10, 1806; died Sept. 10, 

1893; married Fidelia Beebe, at Fountain Green, Hancock 
Co., lU., where he lived and died; no children. 

462. ii. HENRY JOSEPH, bom 1810; married Sarah Webster. 

463. iii. ANDREW BENNETT, bom June, 1812; married Amy 

Dowd. 

464. iv. SARAH MARIA, bom Sept. 2, 1814; married Justus 

Webster. 

465. V. EMILY, born June 4, 1817; married John W. Hotchkiss. 

466. vi. HULDAHJEANNETTE.bom Oct. 28, 1820; died Apr. 27, 

1837. 

191. ISAAC HINSDALE" (Ezra^ Jacob* Barnabas' Barnabas* 

Roberti), son of Sergeant Ezra Hinsdale and Sarah Hop- 
kins, his wife, born February 26, 1788, died September 14, 
1818. He married, November 25, 1813, Emilia Frisbie. 
Child: 

467. i. ISAAC ORSANUS, bom Apr. 27, 1815; married Luanna B. 

Sperry. 



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200. PHEBE HINSDALE » (George^ Jacob* Barnabas' Barnabas* 
Robert!), daughter of George Hinsdale and Phebe Allen, 
his wife, born May 1, 1783; married at Canaan, N. Y., June 
1, 1805, Timothy Brown, who died December 29, 1853. 
She died at Henry, Illinois, in 1861. Both are buried at 
Monson, Mass. 

In Chicago, Illinois, at the home of her daughter, Han- 
nah Whiting Smith, and at the request of her children, she, 
in her sixty-sixth year, December 2, 1848, wrote her Auto- 
biography, a wonderful record of early hardships end\ired 
and overcome through great Christian fortitude. This 
record was never published. A few copies in ink were made, 
one of which is in the possession of her granddaughter, Lura 
Hinsdale Smith of Alameda, California, another is with her 
granddaughter, Mrs. Lowder, of Yokohama, Japan. She 
was the youngest of seven children who survived their par- 
ents. Her father died when she was about ten months of 
age. Her mother died when she was about eight years 
old. Her parents were very poor and left nothing to their 
orphan children. Shortly after the death of her father she, 
with her sister, Lydia, were committed to the care of their 
maternal grandparents, the Aliens. Here she remained 
until she was nine years of age and received kind treatment 
and religious instruction from her pious gi'andmother. 
This teaching, mainly from the Bible, fell on good ground. 
Phebe was of a reserved, quiet, sensitive nature, inclined 
to deep meditation from her earliest youth — always thought- 
ful, kind, deeply religious, interested in the welfare of 
others, most zealous to acquire knowledge, especially of 
a religious character. When nine j^ears old, she had 
carefully read the entire Bible through, three times, with 
her grandmother always at hand to explain any obscure 
passages. From this age of nine years, until she reached 
the age of eighteen years, she was deprived of all teach- 
ing or instruction, and was not allowed to read a book of 
any kind, except when she could do so by stealth. This, 
next to the death of her parents, was the greatest calamity 
which could befall her. It occurred in this wise : Her 
mother just before her death, requested that Phebe be 
committed to the care of her eldest sister Chloe, who was 
then married to William Noyes, Junior, who proved to be a 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 123 

dastardly tyrant of the meanest type, and who treated 
Phebe full as badly as if she were a negro slave. Her 
sister was so dominated by her brutal husband, that she, 
being of a weak nature, dared not even to show kindness 
to her orphan sister in the presence of her husband. But 
enough of these sad years. June 1, 1805, she married 
Mr. Timothy Brown, a carpenter and painter, a poor man, 
but a kind and devoted husband. November following 
they took up their residence at East Windsor, Con- 
necticut; here two children were born to them, Julia M. 
and Samuel Robbins. After nine years they removed to 
Ellington, six miles distant, where they lived for five years. 
Here two children, Mary and Hannah, were born. Here 
also "The Twilight Hynm" was written — 

" I love to steal a while away 
From every cumbering care," etc., 

well and favorably known and often sung in all religious 
societies of orthodox creed. The second line as written by 
Mrs. Brown, ran — 

"From little ones and care." 

The poor mother worn out with the household duties of the 
day sought reUef at evening in meditation and silent prayer 
in a grove hard by her humble dwelling. In 1818 the 
Browns removed to Monson, in Hampden County, Massa- 
chusetts, where they lived until Mr. Brown's death, De- 
cember 29, 1853. Phebe then came to live with her distin- 
guished son, Samuel Robbins Brown, at Owasco Outlet, 
near Auburn, New York. Phebe died at the home of her 
daughter Hannah (Mrs. Elijah Smith) at Henry, Illinois, 
in 1861. Thus ended the life of a most devoted Christian 
wife and mother, and one of the sweetest American Chris- 
tian poets. 

Children : 

468. i. JULIA MARIA, bom at E. Windsor, Conn., 1806. 

469. ii. SAMUEL ROBBINS, bom June 16, 1810; married EUzabeth 

Bartlett. 

470. iii. MARY, born at Ellington, Conn., 1813. 

471. iv. HANNAH WHITING, bom July 18, 1816; married twice. 

203. THEODORE HINSDALE' (Theodore" John* Barnabas' 
Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Reverend Theodore Hinsdale 



124 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

and Anna Bissell, his wife, born at Windsor, Conn,, 
November 12, 1772, baptized November 17, 1772, died at 
Pittsfield, Mass., Oct. 14, 1855. He married, November 3, 
1805, Fanny Pomeroy, who was born at Warwick, Mass., 
January 5,1780, and died August 13, 1813, daughter of Doc- 
tor Medad Pomeroy and Sarah Hunt, his wife, and widow 
of William Swan Lyman, who was born at Northfield, 
Mass., September 5, 1775, married in 1799, and died 
February 25, 1801. By her first husband she had a son 
William Swan Lyman, who was born June 24, 1800, and 
died at New Orleans, La., in 1840. She was descended 
from Eltweed Pomeroy, the emigrant, through his son Me- 
dad, grandson Ebenezer, and great-grandson General Seth 
Pomeroy, who was father of Doctor Medad Pomeroy above 
who married Sarah Hunt. 

Children : 

472. i. FANNY POMEROY, married David Ely Bartlett. 

473. ii. MARY. 

474. iii. GEORGE. 

204. JOSIAH BISSELL HINSDALE « (Theodore'^ John^ Barna- 
bas^ Barnabas^ Robert^), son of Reverend Theodore Hins- 
dale and Anna Bissell, his wife, born at Winsdor, Conn., 
November 15, 1774, baptized November 20, 1774, died 
at Rochester, N. Y., February 6, 1866, aged 91. He 
married Temperance Pitkin, who was born May 3, 
1772, and died August 13, 1813, daughter of Rev- 
erend Timothy Pitkin and Temperance Clapp, his 
wife. He discarded his first name "Josiah," and 
was known as "Bissell." In the year 1800, he came 
to Winstead, Conn., where he carried on a large, and for 
many years a prosperous business, selling goods, buying 
and slaughtering cattle for the West India trade, making 
potash and buying cheese for the New York market. In 
1826, he became involved in the failure of his brothers, 
John and Daniel, of Middletown, Conn., on whose paper he 
was an endorser for a large amount, and thereby his busi- 
ness was broken up and his property swept away. In 1842, 
he removed to Rochester, N. Y., where his two daughters re- 
sided, and where he carried on a commission business for 
several years. He made a profession of religion at middle 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 125 

age, which he sustained by a consistent life, and verified by 
a steady growth in Christian graces to the close of life. 
The infirmities of age abated not his lo^dng trust in his 
Saviour. He was gathered to his fathers as a shock of corn 
fully ripe. 

Children: 

475. i. THEODORE, bom Dec. 27, 1800; marriedJerushaRockweU. 

476. ii. ANN, bom Oct. 16, 1802; married Frederick Whittlesey. 

477. iii. MARY PITKIN, bom Jan. 10, 1805; married Selah Mat- 

thews. 

478. iv. TIMOTHY PITKIN, bom May 5, 1809; died Feb. 5, 1810. 

479. V. CHARLES, bom Mav 23, 1812; died Mar. 1, 1814. 



206. JOHN HINSDALE » (Theodore^ John* Barnabas^ Barnabas^ 
Robert!), son of Reverend Theodore Hinsdale and Anna 
Bissell, his wife, born November 10, 1778, died at Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., March 13, 1851. He married, first. May 26, 
1804, Elizabeth Wetmore, who was born August 23, 1784, 
and died October 25, 1808. He married, second, October 3, 
1810, Harriet Johnston, who was born August (5 or) 6, 
1785, and died at Brooklyn, N. Y., November, 1856. She 
was the daughter of Major Samuel Johnston and Sarah 
Sage, his wife. He was a merchant of Middletown, Conn. 
His second wife was a Presbyterian. 

Children: 

By his first wife, Elizabeth Wetmore. 

480. i. SARAH WETMORE, born at Middletown, Conn., June 1. 

1805; married Elijah H. Kimball. 

481. ii. ELIZABETH CHRISTOPHERS, bom June 17, 1807; mar- 

ried Elijah H. Kimball. 

By his second wife, Harriet Johnston. 
484. iii. JOHN THEODORE, bom Jan. 10, 1812; married Susan 
Maria Loring. 

483. iv. HARRIET ANN, bom Aug. 16, 1813; married William 

Olcott. 

484. v. CAROLINE HALLAM, bom at Middletown, Jan. 11, 1815, 

died Jan. 22, 1831, at Middletown, unmarried; she was a 
pupil in Troy Seminary in 1828. 

485. vi. SAMUEL JOHNSTON, bom Mar. 26,1817; married twice. 

486. vii. THEODORE, (Honorable), bom Feb. 3, 1819; married 

Grace Webster Haddock. 

487. viii. MARY JOHNSTON, bom at Middletown, Nov. 16,1821; 

died Dec. 1, (or 4,) 1836. 



126 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

207. LEVI HINSDALE « (Theodore'^ John^ Barnabas^ Barnabas* 
Robert!), son of Reverend Theodore Hinsdale and Anna 
Bissell, his wife, born November 29, 1780; baptized January 
14, 1781 ; died February 19, 1830. He married, February 19, 
1830, Harriet Moseley, who died December, 1869, aged 81. 

Children : 

488. i. DAVID MOSELEY, bom 1808; died March, 1871, aged 63; 

had a daughter, Katharine S. Hinsdale; living. 

489. ii. AURELIA B., married a Mr. Davis; living at Amherst, 

Mass. 

211. DEACON WILLIAM HINSDALE « (Theodore^ John^ Bar- 
nabas' Barnabas^ Robert^) , son of Reverend Theodore Hins- 
dale and Anna Bissell, his wife, born at Windsor, Conn., 
March 5, 1790, baptized April 24, 1790; died October 
5, 1860, aged 70. He married, first, at Dalton, Mass., De- 
cember 29, 1814, Judith Wing, of that part of Dalton 
afterward included in Hinsdale tow^lship, who died at 
Hinsdale, October 25, 1840. He married, second, May 8, 
1844, Abigail Clark of Northampton, Mass., who died 
February 5, 1861. He was deacon of the church at Hins- 
dale, Mass., from April 28, 1827, to April 29, 1836, when he 
resigned. 

Children : 

By his first wife, Judith Wing. 

490. i. MIRA, born Nov. 2, 1815; married twice. 

491. ii. MARY ANN, bom Feb. 13, 1819; died Apr. 23, 1842. 

492. iii. WILLIAJNl, born Apr. 21, 1822; died Oct. 24, 1824. 

493. iv. ELIZABETH WING, born Aug. 3, 1824; married Charles 

HaU. 

494. V. FRANKLIN WILLIAM, born Sept. 7, 1826; unmarried; 

living at Pittsfield, Mass. 

495. vi. JAMES HENRY, born Dec. 17, 1833; married Mary Liv- 

ingston Gilbert. 

216. SAIMUEL PLUMB " (Lucy Hinsdale^ John^ Barnabas^ Barna- 
bas^ Robert!), son of Samuel Plumb and Lucy Hinsdale, 
his wife, born in Middletown, Conn., February 25, 1772, 
died in West Turin, Lewis County, N. Y., September 6, 
1839. He married in 1796, Hannah Scovil, who died 
October 1, 1858. 

Children : 

496. i. SAMUEL, bom 1797; died 1813. 



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497. ii. ELIJAH, born Apr. 1, 1799; died June 14, 1863; married, 

first, Feb. 11, 1821, Amanda Mix, who died Aug. 7, 1835; 
he married, second, Anna E. Heddleston. 

498. iii. HANNAH, born Mar. 9, 1801; died 1817. 

499. iv. ELEAZER, (twin with Hannah), born Mar. 9, 1801; died 

May 6, 1856; married May 1, 1823, Matilda Miller. 

500. V. LUTHER, bom Apr. 9, 1803; died Sept. 20, 1878; married, 

first, 1829, RoxanaMoon; second, Jan. 17, 1847, Mary E. 
Darrow. 

501. vi. JEMIMA, born Sept. 17, 1807. 

502. vii. SELDEN, born Nov. 19, 1809; died May 23, 1856; married. 

Mar. 27, 1833, Margaret Rea. 

503. viii. LOUISA, born Aug. 17, 1813; married Jan. 13, 1831, 

Alvin Moon. 

504. Lx. SAMUEL, born Apr. 2, 1816; died Sept., 1839. 

218. JOHN PLUMB " (Lucy Hinsdale' John* Barnabas^ Barnabas^ 

Roberto, son of Samuel Plumb and Lucy Hinsdale, his 
wife, born May 14, 1782, died July 31, 1826. He married, 
September 15, 1805, Elizabeth Clark, who was born 
Jime 6, 1788, and died April 1, 1826. 

Children : 

505. i. SETH GILBERT, born Feb. 12, 1807; died Feb. 20, 1878; 

married 1834, Catherine Savage HaU. 

506. ii. MYRON JOHNSON, born May 14, 1809; died Oct. 15, 1885; 

married Jan. 25, 1838, Maria Louisa StoweU. 

507. iii. NELSON WILLIAM, born Aug. 12, 1811. 

508. iv. HARRIET MARIA, born Dec. 10, 1813; married Mar. 14, 

1833, George Willard Hubbard. 

509. v. EZRA CLARK, born May 8, 1820. 

219. ELIZABETH HINSDALE « (Elijah^ John* Barnabas^ Barna- 

bas^ Robert!), daughter of Elijah Hinsdale and his first wife, 
Ruth Bidwell, born February 6, 1775, died August 27, 
1843, aged 68, at the house of her son-in-law, Stephen L. 
Strickland, in New Britain, Conn. She married, July 20, 
1793, Elihu Burritt, born December 13, 1765, died 
January 29, 1827. He was in the War of the Revolu- 
tion. They settled in New Britain, Conn. He was a 
farmer and shoemaker. They had ten children of whom 
the most famous was Elihu Burritt, "The Learned Black- 
smith." 

Children : 

510. i. ELIJAH HINSDALE, born Apr. 20, 1794; married Ann 

Williams Watson. 



128 HLNSDALE GENEALOGY 

511. ii. BETSEY HINSDALE, bom July 22, 1796; married Hezekiah 

Seymour. 
512. iii. EMILY, bom Aug. 12, 1798; married a Captain Taylor. 

513. iv. GEORGE,bom Dec. 5, 1800; died Aug. 22, 1822, in Georgia, 

aged 22. 

514. V. MARY, bom Feb. 18, 1803; married Warren Williams. 

515. xi. WILLIAM, bom July 8, 1805; married Clarissa Cole. 

516. vii. ISAAC, born May 31, 1808; married Oct. 16, 1832, Nancy 

Barnes, daughter of Selah Barnes; no children. 

517. viii. ELIHU, (Honorable), "The Learned Blacksmith," 

born Dec. 8, 1810; died Mar. 6, 1879. 

518. ix. EUNICE WAKEMAN, bom May 2, 1813; married first, 

Jabez Cornwall; second, A. J. Sawyer. 

519. X. ALMIRA BIDWELL,born July 27, 1816; married Stephen 

Lyman Strickland. 

220. ROXANA HINSDALE « (Elijah^ John* Barnabas^ Barnabas^ 
Robert!) , daughter of EUjah Hinsdale and his first wife, 
Ruth Bidwell, born June 10, 1778, married, December 
11, 1796, Captain Ezekiel Andrews, of New Britain, 
Conn., born May 25, 1775, son of Hezekiah Andrews and 
Anna Stedman, his wife. They were both made members 
of the Congregational Church in New Britain, September 
11, 1803. He inherited the homestead of his father, 
with the saw-mill, and a large farm, much of it moim- 
tainous and woody. He was a man a little above the 
common size, of nearly perfect form and features. He 
possessed the proud and indomitable will of his mother, 
yet was of noble impulses. He was patriotic and pub- 
lic spirited. He was in the War of 1812, as a Captain of 
MiUtia, by which title he was always called after he 
received his commission, signed by Governor Jonathan 
Trumbull, and dated May, 1809. He drew a part of his 
land boimty in his own life time, and his widow, who was 
his second wife, the. remainder. His first wife Roxana, the 
mother of his large family of children, died January 4, 
1832, aged 54, leaving some mteresting wTitten remin- 
iscences of her own religious experience and Hfe, and he 
married, second, October 20, 1833, Huldah Goodrich, born 
January 5, 1788, at Simsbm-y, daughter of Stephen Good- 
rich of Simsbury and Lydia Terry, his wife, and widow of 
Luther Moses of Simsbury. Captain Andrews was a hard 
working farmer; was successful as such, and left some 
$16,000, at his death, which occurred at New Britain, 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 129 

September 3, 1852, aged 77. His early training and 
education were deficient. He was fearless of danger, had 
great power of endurance and force 'of character. His 
widow Huldah died May 10, 1871, at Hartford, at the 
home of her daughter, Mrs. Richardson, aged 83. She 
was a discreet and sensible woman; was a member of 
the Fom-th Church of Hartford and was buried in Spring 
Grove Cemetery. 

Children : 

520. i. ALFRED, (Deacon), born Oct. 16, 1797; married twice. 

521. ii. THESTA, born Dec. 16, 1798; married Captain Bryan Por- 

ter. 

522. iii. ALLURA, born Apr. 16, 1801; died unmarried, hopefully 

pious, May 30, 1831, aged 30. 

523. iv. Infant, bom Mar. 8, 1803; died Mar. 10, 1803. 

524. V. EDWIN NORTON, bom June 27, 1804; died Aug. 25, 1825, 

aged 21, unmarried. 

525. vi. MARY BID WELL, born Apr. 13, 1807; married Samuel E. 

Curtiss. 

526. vii. EZEKIEL, born July 19, 1809; married Sarah E. Parker. 

527. viii. NATHAN HOSMER, bom June 22, 1812; died Oct. 27, 

1837. 

528. Lx. ROXANA, bom Apr. 6, 1815; married Enos M. Smith. 

529. X. JANE LOUISA, born Feb. 2, 1818; married William MUes, 

Jr. 

530. xi. ELIJAH HINSDALE, bom Aug. 11, 1820; died Oct. 30, 

1821. 

531. xii. ELLEN MARIA, bom Sept. 18, 1824; living m 1871 

with her sister, Mary Bidwell, at Waterloo, Wis.; united 
with the First Church of New Britain, June 4, 1843, 
and was recommended to the church in Broadalbin, 
N. Y., subsequently. 

221. MARY HART8(Lydia Hinsdale' John* Barnabas^ Barna- 
bas^ Roberto, daughter of Captain Samuel Hart and Lydia 
Hinsdale, his wife, born September 23, 1771, at Ken- 
sington, Conn., married John Lee, of Berlin, Conn., and 
located in the Blue Hills District in Kensington. 

Children: 

532. i. LUCY, married Albert Norton. 

533. ii. A child, lived in MarysvUle, Ohio. 

534. iii. JOHN. 

535. iv. MARY, married, first, Rodney Pickett; second, William 

Lee, a merchant of Troy, N. Y. 



130 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

225. LYDIA HART " (Lydia Hinsdale^ John' Barnabas^ Barnabas^ 
Robert!), daughter of Captain Samuel Hart and Lydia 
Hinsdale, his wife, born September 18, 1778, married 
Elisha Treat of Middle town, Conn. 

Children : 

536. i. EMILY. 

537. ii. LORENZO. 

538. iii. MARY, died 1831, aged 21 years; she was adopted by her 

aunt Emma, Mrs. Willard. 

228. NANCY HART « (Lydia Hinsdale^ John^ Barnabas' Barna- 

bas^ Roberto, daughter of Captain Samuel Hart and Lydia 
Hinsdale, his wife, born March 8, 1785, married Joshua 
Simmons of New Philadelphia, Ohio. Her only surviving 
daughter, Laura, was educated at Troy Seminary, and was 
the first in her class. She subsequently became a teacher 
at the Patapsco Institute, Maryland, of which school her 
aunt, Almira Lincoln Phelps, was the principal. 

229. ElMMA HART « (Lydia Hinsdale' John^ Barnabas' Barna- 

bas^ Roberti), daughter of Captain Samuel Hart and Lydia 
Hinsdale, his wife, born at Berlin, Conn., February 23, 1787, 
died at Troy, N. Y., April 15, 1870. She married, in 1809, 
Doctor John Willard, Marshal of the State of Vermont, 
who died in May, 1825. Her long and useful life was de- 
voted to the improvement of women's education. Begin- 
ning in her native town as a school teacher at the age of 
sixteen, she taught subsequently in Massachusetts, Ver- 
mont and New York, but became especially identified 
with the city of Troy, N. Y., where she conducted a famous 
seminary for young ladies diu-ing the years 1814-1838. In 
the latter year she resigned the charge of her seminary and 
came to Hartford, Conn., to reside. Her publications in- 
clude a large number of text-books and manuals in history, 
geography, astronomy, etc., the total sales of which 
amounted to a million copies at the time of her death. 
Her most original contribution to science was a "Treatise 
on the Motive Powers which produce the Circulation of the 
Blood" (1846). In 1830 she announced the pubhcation 
at Hartford of a volume of poems. Her best known poem 
is the "Ocean Hymn," beginning, "Rocked in the cradle 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 131 

of the deep." The following is a just tribute: — "Mrs. 
Willard brought to her great work a mind as clear and com- 
prehensive as the light of noon-day, and a spirit as soft and 
gentle as the shades of evening. Her enthusiasm in the 
improvement and elevation of her sex filled her soul and 
inspired her life. For this she lived — for this she labored; 
and the fruits of that life and of those labors are scattered 
broadcast through the whole country and through two gen- 
erations. Her great and special gift was her power of in- 
fluencing and controlling others. This was not done by 
little arts and petty devices; wisdom and justice were the 
foundations of her government — sympathy and love the 
secrets of her power. It is the attribute of genius to im- 
press itself upon others; and if Mrs. Willard be judged by 
this standard she certainly had few equals. Her pupils, 
everyT\^here, bear the impress of their great education. 
Trained to exact and severe thought, they analyze with 
logical accuracy. Inspired with the sentiment that life has 
duties which must be done, they do not waste it in frivoli- 
ties. Having been taught by precept and example that home 
is the sphere and throne of woman, they fill that home 
with the precious joys of intelligence, peace and love." 

Of those who are born of woman, no greater woman has 
ever arisen to bless America than Emma Willard. The sweet, 
loving and highly intellectual influence which she exerted, 
has been, and will continue to be, a sacred memory to mul- 
titudes in our land. She was the acknowledged pioneer of 
the higher education for woman in this country, and it may 
be added, for the whole world. Her life has been wTitten 
by Doctor John Lord, and was published by Appletons, 
New York, 1873. 

From The National Cyclopedia of American Biography : 
James T. White & Company, Vol. 1, p. 24A- 
Emma Willard, educator, was born February 23, 1787, at 
Berlin, Conn. She was the daughter of Samuel Hart, who, 
on his father's side, was descended from Stephen Hart, who 
was deacon of the first church of Hartford; and on his 
mother's side, from Thomas Hooker, minister of the same 
church. Miss Hart was one of a family of seventeen chil- 
dren, and was carefully educated by her parents, who were 



132 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

well-read and of strong character. Possessing slender 
means, the children were instructed in habits of frugality 
and thrift, and taught the lesson of self-denial in order to 
help others. Her early education was finished at the village 
academy, and at seventeen she began her life-work, as an 
educator, in one of the village schools. She soon obtained 
such a reputation as a teacher that in 1807 she was invited 
to take charge of academies in three different states. She 
went to Westfield, Conn., but remained there only a few 
weeks, when she became principal of an academy for girls 
at Middlebury, Vt. Two years later she resigned her po- 
sition, on her marriage to Dr. John Willard, and in 1814 
she opened a boarding-school for young women at Middle- 
bmy, into which she introduced new methods and new 
studies. At the same time she wrote an "Address to the 
Public," in which she set forth her "Plan for Improving 
Female Education." Governor Clinton of New York recom- 
mended her "Plan" in his message to the legislature, which 
passed an act incorporating an institute at Waterford for 
the " Improvement of Female Education." On Governor 
Clinton's invitation Mrs. Willard removed her school to 
Waterford, N. Y., and two years later she was induced to 
transfer it to Troy, N. Y., where, in May, 1821, the famous 
"Troy Female Seminary" was opened. Mrs. WiUard con- 
tinued at the head of the school until 1830, when ill health 
compelled her to take a vacation abroad, and on her 
return she published a volume of travels, the proceeds of 
wihch she gave to the school for the education of native 
teachers in Greece. She gave up her seminary in 1838, 
and went to Hartford, Conn., where she spent much time 
revising her text-books on "United States and Universal 
History and Ancient Geography." In 1846 she published 
"A Treatise on the Motive Powers which Produce the Cir- 
culation of the Blood," in which she endeavored to prove 
that the motive power of "circulation was not the heart's 
action, but respiration. She published also a volume of 
poems, of which the best known is probably "Rocked in the 
cradle of the deep." She died April 15, 1870. 

230. ALMIRA HART » (Lydia Hinsdale* John^ Barnabas^ Barna- 
bas^ Roberti), daughter of Captain Samuel Hart and Lydia 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 133 

Hinsdale, his wife, born at Worthington, Conn., July 13, 
1793; married, first, October 5, 1817, Simeon Lincoln; 
second, 1831, Honorable John Phelps. She died in 
Baltimore, Md., in 1884, aged 91. 

From Memorial History of Hartford County, Conn., Vol. 2, 
p. 25. 

"Almira Hart, better known as Almira Lincoln Phelps, 
was the 17th child of Captain Hart and was born in Worth- 
ington in 1793. She received her education in part in her 
sister's schools. At the age of 19, she taught a school in 
her father's house, and not long after took charge of an 
academy at Sandy Hill, New York. In 1817, she was 
married to Simeon Lincoln of New Britian, then edi- 
tor of a literary paper published in Hartford. He died in 
1823, and in 1831 she was married to Hon. John Phelps of 
Vermont, an eminent jurist and statesman, and went to re- 
side in Guilford, and afterwards in Brattleboro, Vermont. 
In 1838, she took charge of a seminary at West Chester, 
Penn., and afterwards one in Rahway, New Jersey. In 
1841, she was invited by the Bishop of Maryland and the 
Trustees of the Patapsco Institute to found a Church 
School for girls. Here she continued fifteen years, doing, 
as her sister says " her great and crowning educational 
work." Her husband died in 1849. She died in Balti- 
more in 1884, at the age of 91. From 1816, she was a de- 
voted member of the Episcopal Church. She published 
many books for students in various departments of natural 
science, the best known of which is her work on Botany pub- 
lished in 1829, while she was Vice Principal of the Troy 
Seminary," 

From The National Cyclopedia of American Biography: 
James T. White & Company, Vol. 11, p. 359. 
Almira (Hart) Lincoln Phelps, educator and author, was 
born at Berlin, Hartford County, Conn., July 15, 1793, daugh- 
ter of Samuel and Lydia (Hinsdale) Hart, She was de- 
scended from Stephen Hart, who was deacon of the first 
chiu"ch of Hartford and deputy to the general coiu-t of Con- 
necticut, and also a descendant of Thomas Hooker, min- 
ister of the same chiuch and founder of Hartford, She 
was the youngest of seventeen children, and was a sister of 



134 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

the reformer and educator, Mrs. Emma Willard, by whom 
she was educated. She began teaching at an early age, 
first in her father's house, and afterward at the Sandy Hill 
(New York) Female Academy. After the death of her first 
husband she was associated with her sister, Emma Wil- 
lard, at the famous seminary in Troy, and in 1838 she took 
charge of a seminary in West Chester, Pa. Her reputation 
as a successful educator attracted the attention of the trus- 
tees of the Patapsco Female Institute, of which Hon. 
Thomas B. Dorsey, chief- justice of Maryland, was presi- 
dent, and upon their invitation she removed to EUicott 
City, Md., in 1841, to assume charge of that institution, 
which soon attained a high reputation. She was the author 
of a series of elementary treatises, wliich were for many 
years widely used as text-books, and was the second woman 
elected a member of the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science. Her publications are: "Familiar 
Lectures on Botany" (1829); "Dictionary of Chemistry" 
(1830); "Botany for Beginners" (1831); "Geology for 
Beginners" (1832); "Female Student; or. Fireside Friend," 
(1833); "Chemistry for Beginners" (1834); " Lectures on 
Natural Philosophy" (1835); "Lectures on Chemistry" 
(1837); "Natiu-al Philosophy for Beginners" (1837); and 
"Hours With My Pupils" (1869). She also wTote the tales: 
"Caroline Westerly" (1833); "Ida Norman" (1850); and 
"Christian Household" (1860); and edited "Our Coimtry 
in Its Relation to the Past, Present and Future" (1868), 
for the benefit of the Christian and sanitary commissions. 
In 1817 she was married to Simeon Lincoln, of Hartford, 
Conn., who died in 1823, and in 1831 she was married to 
Judge John Phelps, of Vermont. She was the mother of 
three daughters and one son, Charles E. Phelps, who com- 
manded a Maryland regiment in the civil war, served two 
terms in Congress, and was twice elected judge. She died 
in Baltimore, Md., July 15, 1884. 

231. COLONEL HOSEA HINSDALE « (John^ John* Barnabas^ 
Barnabas^ Robert^), son of John Hinsdale and Philomela 
Hurlbut, his wife, born at Berlin, Conn., February 15, 1775, 
died October 21,' 1866, aged 92. He married, March 2, 1798, 
Elizabeth Shepard, born at Hartland, Conn., September 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 135 

2, 1777, died January, 25, 1861, aged 86, the daughter of 
Eldad Shepard and Rebecca Seymour, his wife. He was 
called "Colonel;" removed from Berlin to Winsted, Conn., 
in 1802; was a tanner by trade, but was largely engaged in 
public affairs. His social qualities were of a high order. 
His acquaintance with men of the County and State was 
extensive, and his memory of events acciu^ate in a re- 
markable degree. At ninety he could recall an acquam- 
tance or event of early days with the readiness of a young 
man. He was a reading man, well posted in all current 
events. In person and manner he was dignified, and 
fluent and attractive in conversation. He was the chro- 
nicler and patriarch of the village, the last of the gener- 
ation of men who laid the foundations and controlled the 
destinies of the community in which he lived. 

Children: 

539. i. ELIZABETH, born Dec. 17, 1798; died Dec. 4, 1804. 

540. ii. HARRIET, born Sept. 25, 1801; died Dec. 10, 1804. 

541. iii. JULIA, bom Nov. 14, 1805; died Apr. 16, 1872. 

542. iv. HENRY, bom Aug. 31, 1807; married Jane Coe. 

543. V. CAROLINE, born July 19, 1811; married Bezaleel Beebe 

Rockwell. 

544. vi. HARRIET, bom Dec. 6, 1813; died Oct. 7, 1816. 

545. vii. JOHN, born May 10, 1817; married Amanda Malvina 

Alvord. 

234. MIELIA HINSDALE" (John"* John* Barnabas^ Barnabas^* 
Roberti) , daughter of John Hinsdale and Philomela Hurl- 
but, his wife, born at Berlin, Conn., November, 5, 1780, 
died May 15, 1851, aged 70. She married, at Winsted, 
Conn., December 31, 1806, Anson Cook, who was born 
October 4, 1779, and died December 14, 1860, aged 
81. He was the oldest son of L^rijah Cook of Windsor, 
Conn., who married Submit Tuttle, who was the third child 
of Captain Levi Tuttle of East Haven, Conn. Anson Cook 
was by trade a mill-wright. He was an industrious, quiet, 
upright man, and sincere Christian. 

Children: 

546. 1. JAMES HINSDALE, born Mar. 9, 1809; married Sarah E. 

Stillman. 

547. ii. RHODA AMELIA, born Dec. 16, 1810; married Alanson 

Davis. 



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548. iii. SHERMAN TUTTLE, born Mar. 22,1813; married twice. 

549. iv. ANSON BISSELL,born Dec. 12 or 16,1814; died in Yuba 

Co., Cal., Apr. 2, 1857, aged 42. 

550. V. LAURA HINSDALE, born May 24, 1818. 

237. CHLOE HINSDALE « (Barnabas^ Daniel Barnabas^ Barna- 

bas^ Roberto, daughter of Captain Barnabas Hinsdale and 
Magdalen Seymour, his wife, born 1768; died 1824, at 
Blandford, Mass. She married, probably about 1785, 
Henry Butler. 

Children : 

551. i. HENRY, bom July 4, 1786; died Sept. 24, 1805; unmarried. 

552. ii. JAMES, born Feb. 24, 1790; married Sally Cooke. 

553. iii. CATHERINE, born May 18, 1792; married, first, in 1816, 

Miles Beach of Hartford, Conn., and had five children 
by him; afterwards married a Mr. Carter or Cormick; 
later a Mr. Patterson or Paterson; lived in Columbus, O.; 
and had one son and one daughter by each marriage. 

554. iv. SAMUEL, born Sept. 4, 1794; married and settled in Fair- 

port, O.; had three children, two of whom were named 
Henry and Miles. 

555. V. M.ARIA, born Feb. 14, 1797; died Feb. 27, 1797. 

556. vi. WILLIAMHINSDALE, bom Mar. 4,1798; married Henri- 

etta Barbara Mygatt. 

557. vii. JEREMIAH, born Apr. 18,1800; married Elizabeth Ogden 

Ward. 

558. viii. HORACE, born Oct. 18, 1803; died at Philadelphia, Pa., 

Jan. 25, 1855; urmiarried. 

559. ix. HENRY, born Jan. 17, 1806; married twice. 

560. X. DANIEL, (Reverend), born June 28, 1808; married Jane 

Douglas. 

238. EPAPHRAS HINSDALE" (Barnabas' Daniel Barnabas' 

Barnabas^" Robert^), son of Captain Barnabas Hinsdale and 
Magdalen Seymour, his wire, born in 1769, died at Newark, 
N. J. He married, first, Elizabeth Bowen. He married, 
second, Elizabeth Camp, who died July 26, 1817. His 
second wife must have been a most estimable character 
judging from the obituary notices. 
Children : 

By his first wife, Elizabeth Bowen. 

561. i. CHARLES JAMES, (Reverend), born Feb. 12, 1796; mar- 

ried twice. 

By his second wife, Elizabeth or Nancy Camp. 

562. ii. EMILY SEYMOUR, married at Newark, N. J., Oct. 16, 

1823, Doctor Jabez G. Goble. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 137 

241. CATHERINE HINSDALE « (Barnabas^ Daniel* Barnabas' 
Barnabas^ Robert^), daughter of Captain Barnabas Hins- 
dale and Magdalen Seymour, his wife, born December, 
1775, died October 29, 1847, at Berkshu-e, Delaware 
County, Ohio. She married in 1799, Ichabod Plumb, 
of Cheshire, Conn., who was born March 11, 1777, and died 
September, 1847, the seventh child of Reuben Plumb, of 
Middle town. Conn., born April 2, 1744 and Mary Shepard, 
his wife. Both are buried at Berkshire. They removed 
from Connecticut to Ohio in 1799, and settled first in 
Worthington, Franklin County. In 1807 they moved to 
Berkshire, then a wilderness. He was a farmer and 
wagon-maker. They were the grandparents of Hon. 
Preston B. Plumb, United States Senator from Kansas. 

Children : 

563. i. WILLIMI, born July 8, 1800; died 1819. 

564. ii. GEORGE, bom Aug. 20, 1802; married Abby ThraU. 

565. iii. HORACE, born 1804; died in infancy. 

566. iv. HORACE, born in Franklin Co.,0., Apr. 30, 1806; mar- 

ried about 1833, Eliza Cables; lives in Delaware Co., O. 

567. V. CHARLES, born Oct. 26, 1808; married, first, Oct. 1, 

1836; Catherine HoweU; married, second, • Harden; 

lived in Phillips Co., Kan. 

568. vi. JAMES, born July 10, 1810; married Mary Fidler. 

569. vii. DAVID, born July 9, 1812; married Hannah Maria Bierce. 

570. viii. MARTHA, bom Mar., 1815; died about 1850; umnarried. 

571. ix. SYLVESTER, bom about 1817; died about 1819. 

572. X. MARY, bom Oct. 1, 1819; married John Loofbourow; she 

lives in Los Angeles, Cal. 

573. xi. ZENAS, born April 16, 1821; married Merrietta Ward. 

243. HORACE SEYMOUR HINSDALE" (Barnabas^ Daniel 
Barnabas^ Barnabas'* Robert^), son of Captain Barnabas 
Hinsdale and Magdalen Seymour, his wife, born at Hart- 
ford, Conn., October 7, 1782, died at Oyster Bay, Long 
Island, N. Y., June 1, 1858. His mother died when he was 
but a few days old, and he went, when a boy, to New 
York City where he lived until within two years of his 
death. He married, first, April 30, 1806, Sarah Ogden, 
born May 10, 1786, died in New York City, September 
21, 1821. He married, second, April 19, 1827, Lucina 
Campbell Graham, daughter of Robert Graham of New 
York City, and Tabitha Hurlbut, his wife. 



13S HIXSDALE GEXEALOGY 

Children : 

By his first wife, Sarah Ogdex. 

574. i. HEXRY BUTLER, bom Feb. 9, 1807; married twice. 

575. ii. M.AJ^THA, born in New York City, Oct. 19, 180S; married 

her cousin, Henry Butler, Jr., Xo. 559. 

576. iii. JULIA, born Dec. 11, 1S12; married Daniel Butler. 

577. iv. WILLLA_M LEWIS, born Dec. 23, 1S16; married Isabella 

P. Court enay. 

578. V. ELIZABETH, bom in New York City, Nov. 27, 1821, died 

at Princeton, X. J., X^ov. 25, 1S90; unmarried. 

By his second wife, Lucixa Campbell Graham. 

579. A-i. ROBERT GRAHAM, died in infancy. 

580. \-ii. HORACE GRAH-\-M, (Reverexd), born July 4, 1831; 

married Charlotte E. Howe. 

581. A-iu. CORXELIA GR.YHAM. bom in Xew York City. Jan. 

23, 1S34: unmarried; living at Lakewood, X". J. 

244. DANIEL HIXSDALE, JR." (DanieP DanieP Barnabas^ 
Barnabas-' Robert^), son of Daniel Hinsdale and Elizabeth, 
his wife, born X'ovember 1, 1781, died about 1S30. He 
married, first, ]\Iay 2. 1802, S.\Jt.\H Tiley, who was born 
April 18, 1785, and died December 22, 1816. He married, 
second, September 28. 1817, Catherine Wolcott of X'ew 
London, Conn., who was born May 15, 1786; and died 
January- 14, 1842. daughter of Doctor Simon Wolcott and 
Lucy Rogers, his wife, and great-grand-daughter of Gov- 
ernor Roger "Wolcott. He inherited his share of his 
father's money, but lost ever}'thing while his second 
family was very young. 

Children : 

By his first wife, S.ar.vh Tillet. 

582. i. CATHERIXE JIXIA, bom Mar. 22, 1803; married Christo- 

pher C. Main waring. 

583. ii. J-\MES TILEY, bom May 18, 1805; married twice. 

584. iii. DELIA, bom Feb. 15, 1807; married Theodore Spencer. 

585. iv. HEXRY, bom Dec. 8, 1808; baptized at South Church, 

Hartford, Oct. 30, 1818; married and had two sons. 

586. V. SAR-\H ELIZABETH, bom Xov. 18, 1811; baptized at 

South Church, Hartford, Oct. 30. 1818. 

587. ^•i. SUSAX, born April 8, 1813; baptized at South Church, 

Hartford, Oct. 30, 1818. 

588. xu. D-A:N^IEL CABOT, bom Dec. 15, 1814; baptized at South 

Church, Hartford, Oct. 30, 1818; died Dec. 9, 1834. 

589. xvi. WILLL\,M, bom Dec. 20, 1816; died Mar. 28, 1817. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 139 

By his second vnie, Catherixe Wolcott. 

590. ix. WOLCOTT, bom Aug. 17, 1819; baptized at South Church, 

Hartford, Aug. 18, 1819, died Aug. 22, 1825. 

591. X. LUCRETIA LAW, bom May 26, 1821; married Captain 

Samuel Strong Hayden. 

592. xi. GEORGESPENCER.bomDec. 16, 1822; married Catherine 

Alice Putnam. 

593. xii. SYLVESTER DEERIXG, bom July 6, 1824; married 

Frances Bumap. 

594. xiii. RICHARD LAW, bom May 8, 1826; baptized at South 

Church, Hartford, Feb., 1828; died Mar., 1856. 

249. JOSEPH HINSDILL (or HINSDALE)" (Joseph^ Joseph* 
Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^), son of Ensign Joseph Hmsdale 
and Hannah Bingham, his wife, born at Bennington, Vt., 
October 27, 1773, died June 24, 1822. He married, 
November 6, 1803, Joanna Nichols. 

Children : 

595. i. JOSEPH NICHOLS, bom at Bennmgton,Vt., Jan. 31,1804; 

diedinXew York City, Jan. 13, 1864; married Mar. 9, 1825, 
Fanny Walbridge, born Dec. 14, 1806; died at Bennington, 
Dec. 15, 1884, daughter of St ebbins Walbridge of Benning- 
ton, who was bom Aug. 10, 1770, and died June 19, 1850. 

596. ii. ELIZA ANN, bom Nov. 26, 1806; died at Stockton, Cal., 

Sept. 15, 1877; married EHjah Waters; had several children 
some of whom reside at San Francisco, Cal.; one of them 
is Frederick Waters. 

597. iii. AM.\NDA,bom July 20, 1809; died at Troy, N.Y., Sept. 12 

1874; married R. N. Severance. 

598. iv. HENRY DE-AN', bom Sept. 22, 1812; died Mar. 17, 1816. 

599. v. CAROLINE, born May 3, 1815; married, first, Samuel 

Weeks; second, John Gittons, or Gittings; resides at 
Hempstead, N. Y. 

600. vi. JOANNA DEAN, bom July 15, 1817; married Stephen F. 

Robinson. 

601. A-ii. J-AXE ELIZABETH, bom Aug. 20,1819; married George 

W. Robinson of Bennington. 

602. viii. CHESTER NORMAN, bom Aug. 19, 1822; died at Nor- 

wich, Chenango Co., N. Y., Aug. 8, 1849. 

251. DANIEL HINSDILL" (Joseph^ Joseph^ Isaac^ Barnabas^" 
Roberti) , son of Ensign Joseph Hinsdale and Hannah Bing- 
ham, his wife, born at Salisbm-y, Conn., March 9, 1777, 
married at Bennington, Vt., December 31, 1799, Polly 
Briggs, who was born in Tamiton, Mass., Februar}- 11, 
1779, and died in Bennington, Vt., January 21, 1839, as 



140 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

appears by the record in the family bible now in possession 
of Mr. B}Ton Thomas of Newark, N. Y. Daniel Hinsdill 
went from Bennington to Troy, N. Y., about 1820, taking 
a load of goods. His team was found under one of the 
hotel sheds, he having disposed of his goods ; but he never 
was heard from afterwards, and it was supposed he was 
miu'dered. 

Children, born at Bennington, Vt.: 

603. i. MILO, bom Oct. 5, 1801; married Julia Breckenridge. 

604. ii. ALONZO, born Oct. 3, 1805; married Persis Fisk Henry. 

605. iii. DANIEL BRIGGS, born July 27, 1807; married Ellen 

Dempsey. 

606. iv. ELISHA, bom July 15, 1810; died at Plymouth, N. Y., Oct. 

15, 1854. 

607. V. WILLIAM POOL, born July 28, 1814; married Rosamond 

C. Shattuck. 

608. vi. MILTON, born Aug. 17, 1816; married Diana Albina 

Wheeler. 

609. vii. ORSON KELLOGG, bom Oct. 6, 1818; died in Troy, N.Y., 

Aug. 2, 1834. 

610. viii. ADELIA MARIA, bom Apr. 30, 1820; married Doctor 

Rowland Thomas. 

252. HANNAH HINSDILL" (Joseph^ Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas' 

Roberto , daughter of Ensign Joseph Hinsdale and Hannah 
Bingham, his wife, born at Bennington, Vt., March 17, 

1779, married Nathaniel Tracy, and lived and died at 
Whitesboro, N. Y. 

Children: 

611. i. HANNAH, died 1865; married Thomas Wright, who died 

about 1868; they moved to Lisbon, 111., about 1840. 

612. ii. JEANNETTE, married a Mr. Watson; they lived in Whites- 

boro, N. Y., where she died; no children. 

613. iii. CHESTER, died unmarried. 

614. iv. HELEN HINSDALE, born at Rome.N. Y., Aug. 16, 1816; 

married Nathaniel Pease Barnard. 

253. NORMAN HINSDILL« (Joseph'^ Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas' 

Roberti), son of Ensign Joseph Hinsdale and Hannah 
Bingham, his wife, born at Bennington, Vt., September 3, 

1780, died August 20, 1822. He married, first, 1803, 
Rhoda Harmon, who died December 22, 1806. He mar- 
ried, second, September 26, 1807, Mary Galusha, born 
May 23, 1782, died May 31, 1827, daughter of Governor 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 141 

Jonas Galusha ofVermont. He and his wife are buried at 
Shaftsbury, Vt. 

Children: 

By his first wife, Rhoda Harmon. 

615. i. RHODA HARMON, born Dec. 22, 1806; married July 4, 

1827, Lyman Sherwood, born Aug. 5, 1802; they had two 
children; one son was named Lyman Hinsdale Sherwood. 

By his second wife, Mary Galusha. 

616. ii. A daughter, born May, 1808; died June, 1808. 

617. iu NORMAN GALUSHA,born Apr. 8, 1809; died May 27,1810. 

618. iv. NORMAN BINGHAM, born Apr. 1, 1811; died at Bennmg- 

ton, Vt., Apr. 8, 1840; married Jan. 22, 1833, Caroline 
Althea Edgerton, born Oct. 3, 1813 ; they had two children. 

619. V. JONAS GALUSHA, bom Dec. 20, 1813; died at Rochester, 

N. Y., July 10, 1836; unmarried. 

620. vi. STEPHEN CHITTENDEN, bom at Shaftsbury, Vt., Apr. 

20, 1816: died at Kalamazoo, Mich., Aug. 7, 1888; married 
Nov. 17, 1844, Adeline Cynthia Hinsdale, No. 736, daugh- 
ter of Mitchell Hinsdale; she died Mar. 2, 1889; they lived 
at Morris, 111.; no children. 

621. vii. MARY ELIZA, bom Feb. 8, 1819; married Apr. 1, 1838, 

Daniel Warner Edgerton, born Feb. 26, 1816; they had 
three children; Lydia, died in infancy at Lisbon, 111., 
Mary and Adeline. 

255. DEACON STEPHEN HINSDILL« (Joseph^ Joseph^ Isaac" 
Barnabas^ Robert^), son of Ensign Joseph Hinsdale and 
Hannah Bingham, his wife, born at Bennington, Vt., 
February 12, 1787, died at Grand Rapids, Mich., March 
15, 1848. He married, at Bennington, January 18, 1807, 
Hannah Edgerton, who was born at Bennington, May 
10, 1785, and died at Grand Rapids, Mich., June 21, I860. 
He was a merchant and manufacturer in Bennington. 
He united with the church at Bennington Center in May, 
1816, and was elected Deacon, May 10, 1822. On 
November 9, 1834, he helped organize the Hinsdillville 
Presbyterian Church. Hinsdillville is now called River- 
side, or Irish Corners. The Hinsdills had control of much 
property and several mills there. He had removed with 
his family to Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1836. He was a 
member of the Board of Supervisors of Kent 
County, Mich., in 1843, and built a woolen factory at Grand 
Rapids in 1884. He was an active, hard-working, earnest 
man, of good business qualities, and a sincere Christian. 



142 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Children: 

622. i. EMELINE, bora Oct. 19. 1807; married Reverend James 

Ballard. 

623. ii. CAROLINE LUCRETIA, bom July 4, 1809 ; died in infancy . 

624. iii. STEPHEN EDGERTON, bom Apr. 20, 1812; died in 

infancy. 

625. iv. MILTON HYDE, bom Nov. 6, 1813; died in infancy. 

626. V. LUCRETIA EDGERTON, bom Aug. 4, 1817; married 

Aaron Lewis Hubbell. 

627. vi. HANNAH, born May 10, 1820; died in infancy. 

628. vii. STEPHEN BINGHAM, bom Apr. 29, 1822; married Sarah 

Ann Mosher. 

629. viii. HANNAH JEANNETTE, born Jan. 24, 1824; married 

Hon. Henry Seymour. 

256. HIRAM HINSDILL' (Joseph^ Joseph* Isaac'' Barnabas' 
Robert!), son of Ensign Joseph Hinsdale and Hannah 
Bingham, his wife, born at Bennington, Vt., December 12, 
1788, died at Plymouth Mich., July 1, 1871, aged 83, and is 
buried at Grand Rapids, Mich. He married at Benning- 
ton, Vt., June 11, 1818, Roxalany Walbridge, who was 
born at Norwich, Conn., August 5, 1793, and died at Grand 
Rapids, Mich., June 8, 1845, aged 51, daughter of Gustavus 
Walbridge and Anna Sanford, his wife.* Hiram Hinsdill 

*HENRY WALBRIDGE i was probably of Dorsetshire, England. He died 
at Norwich, Conn., July 25, 1729. He had seven children, of whom the sixth 
son was 

EBENEZER WALBRIDGE,^ bom at Norwich, May 15, 1705, died at 
same place; married first, Dec. 2, 1730, Mary Durkee, at Norwich. She died 
there May 19, 1749, having had seven children, of whom General Ebenezer 
Walbridge was the fourth. He was born Dec. 20, 1738, and died at Benning- 
ton, Vt., Oct. 3, 1819, in the 82nd year of his age. General Walbridge was a 
very prominent man for many years at Bennington. Ebenezer Walbridge, 
Sr., married second, Oct. 16, 1749, Elizabeth Leffingwell, born at Norwich, 
Dec. 12, 1713, died there, daughter of Captain John Leffingwell, and who mar- 
ried first, March, 1730, Ezra Hyde, who died July 18, 1741. By her, Ebenezer 
Walbridge had four children, of whom the fourth was 

GUSTAVUS WALBRIDGE,^ born Oct. 4, 1755, died at Syracuse, N. Y , 
Sept. 23, 1828, who married, at Norwich May 23, 1790, Anna Sanford, bom 
June 11. 1755, died at Bennington, Vt., April 11, 1819. Gustavus Walbridge 
is said to have removed in 1804 to Bennington, where he doubtless resided, at 
least until after his wife's death. His children were all born at Norwich. 
One of them was 

ROXALANY WALBRIDGE,* bom Aug. 5, 1793, who married Hiram 

HmSDILL. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 143 

removed with his family from Bennington to Michigan in 
1833, settling first at Gull Prairie, now called Richland, 
Kalamazoo Coimty. In 1834, he removed to Grand Rapids, 
Kent County, and was one of the first settlers of that 
town. In 1835, he erected, and kept for a time the first 
hotel in Grand Rapids, on the corner of Monroe and Ionia 
streets. This was first called "Hinsdale's Hotel," and 
afterwards "The National." It was afterwards purchased 
from him by his cousin Myron Hinsdale, and still 
later owned and kept for several years by Canton 
Smith. Hiram Hinsdill was County Treasurer of 
Kent County, 1837-1838. He was a graduate of 
Williams College, Mass.; a great reader, well-inform- 
ed, honest, a genial companion, always in good spirits, 
hospitable and kind, and had hosts of friends. He soon 
retired from the hotel business, and purchased a tract of 
land, some two or three miles north of the then town of 
Grand Rapids, and engaged in farming for several years. 
He then sold his farm and retm-ned to the town 



LIEUTENANT THOMAS LEFFINGWELL.i born 1622, died at Norwich, 
Conn., in 1710. He married Mary White, who died Feb. 6, 1711, at Nor- 
wich. He was for 38 years member of the General Court of Connecticut. He 
served in the Pequot War and in King Philip's War; was a friend of Uncas, 
Sachem of the Mohegans, and relieved him when besieged by the Narragan- 
setts in 1645. His son 

DEACON THOMAS LEFFINGWELL,^ born at Saybrook, Conn., Aug. 27, 
1649, died at Norwich, March 5, 1724. He married, September, 1672, Mary 
BusHNELL, born Jan., 1654, died at Norwich, Sept. 2, 1745, daughter of Richard 
Bushnell and Mary Marvin, his wife, daughter of Matthew Marvin of Norwalk, 
Conn., who came in the ship Increase m 1635 and was one of the founders of 
Hartford Conn., his name being on the monument erected in the cemetery at 
Hartford. They were parents of 

CAPTAIN JOHN LEFFINGWELL,' bom at Norwich, Feb. 2, 1688, who 
married there, 1710, Sarah Abell, who died May 9, 1730, daughter of Joshua 
Abell and BetKiah Gager, his wife. Bethiah Gager was born 1657, and was 
daughter of John Gager of New London and afterwards of Norwich, who with 
his father, Deacon William Gager, came to America with Governor Winthrop 
in 1630, and landed at Boston. William Gager was a skillful surgeon and 
was of Governor Winthrop's household. He died at Boston, Sept. 20, 1630, 
not long after landing, from disease contracted by ill diet at sea. Captain 
John Leffingwell and Sarah Abell, his wife were parents of 

ELIZABETH LEFFINGWELL," bom at Norwich, Dec, 12, 1713, died at 
Norwich, who married Ebenezer Walbridqe. 



144 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

where he continued to reside until a short time prior 
to his death. 

Extract from a newspaper: 
"Mr. Hiram Hinsdill, one of the pioneer settlers of Grand 
Rapids, whose death, at the age of 82 years, occurred at 
Plymouth last Friday came here, we think, in 1835, and 
soon after came his brothers, Stephen and Myron Hins- 
dill, weU remembered by the earUer residents, from Ver- 
mont. Hiram was the father of Mrs. C. P. Calkins. He 
was an eminently honest, industrious and sociable Christian 
man, overflowing with kindness and neighborly affection, 
highly respected by all who knew him, and dearly loved by 
his relatives and intimate friends. Mr. Hinsdill for a time 
kept a public house, in the first frame building erected here, 
by Joel Guild, on the ground where the City National Bank 
now stands, and was afterwards landlord of the National 
Hotel, which was erected by Hu-am HinsdiU in 1835. The 
later years of his life have been spent in quiet and retire- 
ment till called to cross the silent river in the ripeness of 
years reached by few men. A very large circle of relatives 
and friends here mourn him tenderly, but as one gone 
hopefuUy and happily to rest." 

Children: 

630. i. GERALDINE HUTCHINSON, born Sept. 1, 1819; married 

Sylvester Combes. 

631. ii. ALTHEA FAY, bom Apr. 11, 1821; married Lewis Dennison 

Dean. (No. 758). 

632. ill. MARY ANN, bom May 27, 1824; married Charles PhUo 

Calkins. 

633. iv. HENRY WALBRIDGE, born Aug. 23, 1825; married Eliza 

Jane Chatfield. 

634. V. ALMIRA SELDEN, bom Dec. 28, 1828; married George 

F. Jones. 

635. vi. ELLEN EDGERTON, born Aug. 19, 1832; married Frank 

Shattuck. 

636. vii. SUSAN ELIZABETH, bom at Grand Rapids, Mich., Aug. 

14, 1838. 

637. viii. SANFORD CHARLES, (Honorable), bom Aug. 14, 

1839; married Charlotte Chatfield. 

257. ELECTA HINSDILL' (Joseph^ Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas' 
Robert^) , daughter of Ensign Joseph Hinsdale and Hannah 
Bingham, his wife, born at Bennington, Vt., February 13, 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 145 

1791, died October 13, 1839. She married, December 1, 
1811, Jonas Galusha, Jr., who was born July 17, 1788, 
and died at Lisbon, 111., June 2, 1861, son of Governor 
Jonas Galusha of Vermont. 

Children, all born at Shaftsbury, Vt.: 

638. i. Child, died in infancy. 

639. ii. Child, died in infancy. 

640. iii. ELOISE ELECTA, born Aug. 19, 1815; married Nathan 

Brittan. 

641. iv. JOSEPHHINSDALE,bomNov. 1, 1817; married Cather- 

ine Sophia Morris. 

642. V. ORSON BINGHAM, born Dec. 2, 1819; married Mary Jane 

Hinsdale. (No. 738). 

258. CAPTAIN ELISHA BOARDMAN" (Lydia Hinsdale* Joseph* 

Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Ozias Boardman and 
Lydia Hinsdale, his wife, born at Canaan, Conn., January 
23, 1773, died at Biu-lington, Vt., February 6, 1826, aged 
53, and is buried at Morristown, Vt. He married, at 
Spencertown, N. Y., in 1798, Hannah Pratt. He was a 
man of good education for the time in which he Uved. He 
was the first Militia Captain, the first Magistrate, the second 
Town Clerk in Morristown, and the first Representative in 
the Vermont Assembly from that town, having repeated 
annual elections for some fifteen years in succession. In 
politics he was a Federalist, as were all his brothers. He 
was a good and conscientious man, but it is not known 
that he joined any chiu-ch. 

Children, born at Morristown, Vt. : 

643. i. MILTON HARVEY, born Sept. 24, 1799; married Sophia 

Haskins. 

644. ii. ALFRED C, born 1801; married Mary Holcomb. 

645. iii. MARCIA PRATT, born Jan. 3, 1807; married Horace 

Hazen. 

646. iv. LAURA C, born 1809; died Oct. 9, 1830; unmarried. 

647. V. HARRIET MARIA, born 1812; died Nov. 10, 1830; 

unmarried. 

259. OZIAS BOARDMAN, JR." (Lydia Hinsdale'^ Joseph* Isaac' 

Barnabas'* Robert^), son of Ozias Boardman and Lydia 
Hinsdale, his wife, born at Canaan, Conn., June 4, 1774, 
died at Morristown, Vt., September 10, 1843. He married 
at Morristown, in 1802, Lydia Whitney, who was born at 



146 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Marlboro, Mass., in 1783, daughter of Eliphalet Whitney 
and Lois Holton, his wife, who removed to Morristown in 
1798. Ozias Boardman, when only nineteen years of age, 
went up from Connecticut to Morristown to begin clearing 
the land his father had bought there eight years previous, 
and not long before his death. With the help of a younger 
brother, WiUiam, he built a house on it the next year, 
thus making ready for his mother and his remaining 
brothers, who emigrated thither the following season. The 
last fifty years of his life were spent in Morristown, where 
he was engaged in farming and keeping "O. Boardman's 
Inn." 

Children: 

648. i. CYRENA. bom 1803] died 1808. 

649. ii. AMANDA, born 1804; died 1808. 

650. iii. ALMOND, (Honorable), bom May 16, 1807: married 

Jemima Goodale. 

651. iv. LORINDA, bom Aug. 10, 1808; married Harry Davis. 

652. V. BYRON, born Mar. 23, 1809; died 1809. 

653. vi. A daughter, bom May, 1810; died in infancy. 

654. vii. ELISHA, born Aug. 14, 1811; married Mary S. Bingham. 

655. viii. NORMAN, (Honorable), bom Apr. 30, 1813; married 

three times. 

656. ix. A daughter, born May 30, 1815; died in infancy. 

657. X. FIDELIA, bom June 28, 1817; married Curtis N. Merriam. 

658. xi. PLUMA, born Mar. 23, 1821; died 1821. 

260. WILLIAM BOARDMAN" (Lydia Hinsdale'^ Joseph* Isaac" 
Barnabas^ Roberti), son of Ozias Boardman and Lydia 
Hinsdale, his wife, born at Canaan, Conn., June 15, 1776, 
died at Morristown, Vt., March 18, 1851. He married, at 
Stowe, Vt., m 1797, Anna Town. He lived in Morristown, 
Vt. He was an honest, upright farmer, and a Federalist 
in politics. 

Children: 

659. i. CLARISSA, bom 1798; died Apr. 15, 1801. 

660. ii. LYDIA, born 1804; married Hiram Earl. 

661. iii. A son, bom May, 1805; died in infancy. 

662. iv. LUCY, bom 1806; married Charles S. Bartlett. 

663. v. LYMAN, bom 1809; died 1878; mamed Town. 

664. vi. RELIEF, born 1813; died 1884; married as his second wife, 

Charles S. Bartlett. 

665. vii. LUCINDA, bom Mar. 8, 1814; died Mar. 21, 1891; married 

Oct. 2, 1841, Charles B. Matthews of Morristown, Vt. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 147 

666. viii. RALPH, born June 7, 1815; married Emily Bartlett. 

667. ix. ARVILLA, born Feb., 1816; died Oct. 14, l'817. 

668. X. OZIAS, born 1818; died Aug., 1822. 

669. xi. FLAVILLA, bom Aug. 7, 1819; married William W. Stan- 

disb. 

670. xii. ALSINA, born Nov., 1821; died Jan. 14, 1823. 

671. xiii. CHARLES WRIGHT, born Oct. 22, 1826; married Hulda 

Cole. 

261. ALFRED BOARDMAN" (Lydia Hinsdale'* Joseph^ Isaac^ 
Barnabas^ Robert^), son of Ozias Boardman and Lydia 
Hinsdale, his wife, born at Canaan, Conn., May 11, 1782, 
died at Morristown, Vt., February 9, 1830, aged 48. He 
married at Morristown, November 24, 1803, Lydia Little, 
daughter of James Little, who emigrated to Morristown in 
1800 from Litchfield County, Conn. Mr. Little was a sol- 
dier in the Revolutionary War, and is said to have been 
one of the three that survived out of several hundred in one 
of the British prisons. Alfred Boardman was less than 
three years old when his father died, and had very limited 
opportunities for an education, as he emigrated at an early 
age with his mother and brothers to the wilderness of 
northern Vermont; yet those who remembered him said 
that he was a man of more than ordinary information. He 
fell from a load of hay about ten years before his death, 
receiving injuries from which he never recovered, and he 
was able to walk but very little after the accident. 

Children, born at Morristown, Vt. : 

672. i. WILLIAM ASA, (Honorable), bom Feb. 13, 1806; married 

Emma Fish. 

673. ii. DIANTHA S., bom Sept. 10, 1811; married WiUard Wood. 

266. JESSE GRANDEY" (Mary Hinsdale^ Joseph^ Isaac" Barn- 
abas^ Roberto, son of Edmund Grandey and Mary Hins- 
dale, his wife, born at Canaan, Litchfield County, Conn., 
January 28, 1778, died at Panton, Vt., March 20, 1846. Mar- 
ried first, Anna Smith, of Bridport, Vt., who died about one 
year after marriage. He married, second, Lucretia 
Bacheller, who was born at Smithfield, Provincetown 
County, R. I., February 14, 1780, and died April 9, 1847 
She removed to Panton, Vt., with her parents when young. 
Jesse Grandey was a Baptist. 



148 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Children, all born at Panton, Vt.: 

By his second wife, Lucretia Bacheller. 

674. i. TRUMAN, born June 19, 1803; married PoUy R. Myrick. 

675. ii. SAMANTHA, bom June 25, 1805; married Clark Conant. 

676. iii. ANNA, born Feb. 22, 1808; married Charies Myrick. 

677. iv. ACHSAH.bomApr. 2, 1810; married Anthony Lee Burwell. 

678. V. GEORGE WASHINGTON, (Honorable), bom Feb. 3, 

1813; married Mary Wentworth. 

679. vi. JESSE LYMAN, born Aug. 16, 1815; died Nov. 21, 1827. 

680. vii. SARAH, bom Mar. 21, 1818; married Jefferson Converse. 

681. viii. JANE LUCRETIA, born Feb. 14, 1821; married Henry 

Spalding. 

269. ELIJAH GRANDEY" (Mary Hinsdale^ Joseph^ Isaac' 
Barnabas^ Robert^), son of Edmund Grandey and Mary 
Hinsdale, his wife, born August 25, 1781, died January 16, 
1845. He married, January or July 15, 1805, Abigail 
Chamberlain, who was born July 12, 1783, and died Sep- 
tember 17, 1852, daughter of Reverend Mr. Chamberlain, 
a Baptist minister. They lived and died at Panton, Vt. 
They were Baptists. 

Children: 

682. i. ENOS, bom at Panton, Vt., Dec, 5, 1805. 

683. ii. NANCY, bom at Panton, June 8, 1807. 

684. iii. NORMAN, born at Addison, Vt., Apr. 19, 1809. 

685. iv. EDSON, bom at Addison, Jan. 18, 1811. 

686. v. STILLMAN, bom at Addison, Jan. 8, 1813. 

687. vi. ELECTA, born at Addison, Dec. 2, 1814. 

688. vii. NATHAN, bom at Addison, Oct. 6, 1816. 

689. viii. JOEL HINSDALE, bom at Addison, Mar. 1, 1819. 

690. ix. LYDIA, bom at Addison, Aug. 2, 1821. 

691. X. ELIZABETH, bom at Addison, July 8, 1823; was living, 

a widow, at Panton in 1898. 

271. CHLOE GRANDEY" (Mary Hmsdale^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barn- 
abas^ Robert^), daughter of Edmund Grandey and Mary 
Hinsdale, his wife, married James Bacheller, brother of 
Lucretia Bacheller, who married Jesse Grandey. She died 
m Panton, Vt., March 24, 1830. After her death, he re- 
moved with the children to Michigan. She was a Baptist. 

Children: 

692. i. JERUSHA, bom Apr. 28, 1819. 

693. ii. CYNTHIA, bom Oct. 7, 1820. 

694. iii. LUCRETIA, born Aug. 23, 1822. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 149 

695. iv. CYRUS, bom Aug. 30, 1824. 

696. V. HENRY ,^, bom Aug. 25, 1826. 

697. vi. MYRON, bom Sept. 8, 1828. 

276. OLIVIA HINSDALE" (Moses= Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ 
Roberto, daughter of Moses Hinsdale and Ruth Lord, his 
wife, born at SaUsbury, Conn., September 19, 1784, 
died there December 22, 1819, aged 35, and was buried 
there. She married Jeremiah Dexter. 

Children: 

698. i. HERMAN, (Doctor), married. 

699. ii. REVERE, married; no children. 

700. iii. NEWTON LORD, bom Oct. 17, 1809; marriedLydiaCook. 

701. iv. OLIVIA MARIA, bom Oct. 31, 1814; married Henry G. 

Shook. 

279. ANSON BYINGTON" (Lucy Hinsdale^ Joseph* Isaac' Barn- 
abas^ Roberto, son of Reverend Justus Byington and 
Lucy Hinsdale, his wife, born January 6, 1788, died in 

Charlotte, Vt., January 16, 1870. He married, first, 

McEnin; second, Theoda Cunningham, born September 
9, 1788. 

Children: 

By his first wife, McEnin. 

702. i. TERESA P., bom Sept. 14, 1807; married a Mr. Hazley, and 

removed to Lisbon, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., where she 
died. 

By his second wife, Theoda Cunningham. 

703. ii. HIRAM FAYETTE, bom Jan. 22, 1813; died Mar. 14, 1814. 

704. iii. MARIA MARY, bom May 9, 1814; died Aug. 20, 1883; 

married Edward Brownell; they had a daughter Laura, 
who is a teacher at Burlington, Vt.; they had other child- 
ren, all bom at Williston, Vt. 

705. iv. NORMAN HINSDALE, bom Sept. 20, 1815; died Feb. 

28, 1848; married Adelia Winslow, only sister of Myron 
and Hubbard Winslow, who were well known, the one as a 
missionary, and the other as a writer; she was living in 
1897. at the old homestead at Williston, Vt., where she 
was bom, and where she and Norman lived until he died; 
she was then 80 years of age. 

706. V. LAURA LEMINA, bom Dec. 28, 1816; died Dec. 26, 1850; 

unmarried; a bright and intelligent woman. The inscrip- 
tion on her tombstone is as follows: 

"Sacred to the memory of our sister friend, 

Her life not long, yet answering life's great end." 



150 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

707. vi. ALMEDA AMANDA, bom Mar. 16, 1818; died Oct. 6,1819. 

708. vii. HENRY HARMON, bom Mar. 28, 1819; married Susan 

Whittier Archibald. 

709. viii. ALMA AMANDA, bom Aug. 28, 1820; married George 

Baldwin; lived in Lisbon, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y.; she 
died Aug., 1853, about one j^ear after her marriage. 

710. ix. WILLIAM WORTH, bom Jan. 9, 1822; married twice. 

711. X. MYRON MONROE, bom May 18, 1823; married. 

712. xi. SIDNEY SEYMOUR, bom Sept. 13. 1824; married his 

cousin Clara Lyman Wicker. 

713. xii. LUCY LAVINA, bom June 4, 1826; married Edwin R. 

Newell. 

714. xiii. HIRAM HUBERT, bom Oct. 8, 1827; married Martha 

Burkett. 

715. xiv. ALFRED ANSON, (Honorable), bom Apr. 17, 1830; 

married Mary Ann Marsh. 

283. ORILLA BYINGTON" (Lucy Hinsdale^ Joseph^ Isaac" Bar- 

nabas^ Robert^, daughter of Reverend Justus Byington 
and Lucy Hinsdale, his wife, born September 7, 1796; 
died at Lockport, N. Y., July 22, 1837, aged 41. She 
married William F. Wicker, born January 2, 1798. 

Children: 

716. i. CAROLINE ELIZA, bom May 7, 1822; married Isaac AUen. 

717. ii. MINERVA, bom in Charlotte, Vt., July 15, 1823; died 

Oct. 12, 1885, at Lockport, N. Y.; unmarried. 

718. iii. FRANCIS ASBURY,bom Oct. 29, 1825; died at Charlotte, 

Sept. 12, 1826. 

719. iv. CLARA LYMAN, bom in Burlington, Vt., June 25, 1826; 

her parents moved to Western New York when she was 
two years old; married Sidney Seymour Byington, her 
cousin. 

720. V. WILLIAM FREDERICK, bom in Burlington, Vt., and 

died there. 

721. vi. HESTER ANN. 

722. vii. EMELINE, bom Jan. 4, 1834; died Jan. 27, 1840, in 

Lockport, N. Y. 

723. viii. JULIETTE, born Apr., 1835; unmarried; a teacher in 

Brown School, Chicago, 111. 

284. REVEREND JOHN BYINGTON' (Lucy Hmsdale» Joseph^ 

Isaac' Barnabas' Robert^), son of Reverend Justus Bying- 
ton and Lucy Hinsdale, his wife, born at Hinesburg, Vt., 
October 8, 1798, died at Battle Creek, Mich., January 7, 
1887. He married, first, Priscilla Ferris, who died at 
Charlotte, Vt. He married, second, Catherine Newton, 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 151 

born March 3, 1803, died at Battle Creek, February 20, 
1885, aged 82. He moved to Charlotte, Vt., and later to 
St. Lawrence County, N. Y., locating on a farm near 
Bucksbridge and about two miles from the village of Mor- 
ley. He was a farmer and a Methodist minister, and is 
mentioned in the History of St. Lawrence Coimty as assist- 
ing in the formation of the First Wesleyan Methodist Soci- 
ety of Morley. He is also mentioned in connection with 
the Methodist Church at Potsdam. He sold his farm in 
1857, or 1858, and moved to Michigan, taking up a farm 
in the township of Newton, Calhoim County. Becoming 
advanced in years, he made his home later in Ufe with 
his daughter Martha, wife of George W. Amadon of Battle 
Creek, Mich., where he died. 

Children: 

By his first wife, Priscilla Ferris. 

724. 1. CAROLINE PRISCILLA, bom Mar. 25, 1824; married Am- 

brose White . 

By his second wife, Catherine Newton. 

725. ii. LAURA NEWTON, bom at Charlotte, Vt., Dec. 16, 1830; 

died at Bucksbridge, N. Y., Feb. 9, 1852. 

726. iii. JOHN FLETCHER, (Doctor) , bom Aug. 29, 1832; married 

Martha Louisa Smith. 

727. iv. MARTHA D., bom 1833; married George W. Amadon. 

728. V. LUTHER LEE, bom Oct. 17, 1834; married. 

729. vi. TERESA, bom Jan. 25, 1836; died Mar. 18, 1852. 

730. vii. WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, bom at West Potsdam, 

Dec. 26, 1840; lives at Albany, N. Y.; is General State 
Manager of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Com- 
pany. 

288. WESLEY BYINGTON" (Lucy Hinsdale* Joseph* Isaac' 
Barnabas'* Robert^), son of Reverend Justus Byington and 
Lucy Hinsdale, his wife, born December 28, 1807, died at 
Ogden, N. Y., about 1857. About 1854 he moved to Morley, 
St. Lawrence County, N. Y. He had four children, perhaps 
more. 

Children: 

731. i. EDWARD S., died at Morley, N. Y., at age of 18 years; 

buried in the village cemetery at Morley. 

732. ii. JOHN W., married Emeline; both buried at Morley, N. Y. 

733. iii. FREDERICK. 

734. iv. SARAH. 



152 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

289. HONORABLE MITCHELL HINSDALE' (Aaron' Joseph* 
Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert!) , son of Aaron Hinsdale and Lu- 
cinda Mitchell, his wife, born at Hinesburg, Vt., January 4, 
1791, died at Kalamazoo, Mich., April 16, 1850, aged 59. He 
married at Hinesbm-g, October 7, 1813, Dorothy Weed, 
who was born at Hinesburg, April 13, 1792, and died at 
Kalamazoo, Mich., April 7, 1851. His remains, with those 
of his wife and mother, are buried in Mountain Home 
Cemetery at Kalamazoo. He removed from Hinesburg to 
Kalamazoo in 1834; was admitted to the bar November 
19, 1834; was prosecuting attorney of Kalamazoo County 
in 1835; was elected and served as Judge of Probate from 
1836 to 1844, sustaining himself officially and in his profes- 
sion with great credit. His later years he devoted to 
farming, and had the reputation of being one of the most 
skillful cultivators of the soil in Kalamazoo County. 

Children: 

735. i. CELESTIA ROSELLE, bom at Hinesburg Vt., June 22, 

1814; unmarried; living in 1896. 

736. ii. ADELINE CYNTHIA, bom Nov. 2, 1815; married 

Stephen Chittenden Hinsdale. (No. 620). 

737. iii. DELIA LORAINE, bom at Hinesburg, Sept. 20, 1817; 

died there Mar. 8, 1820. 

738. iv. MARY JANE, bom Feb. 7, 1820; married Orson Bing- 

ham Galusha. (No. 642). 

739. v. EDWIN CHARLES, bom July 30, 1821; married Ellen 

Jane Kent. 

740. vi. NORMAN MITCHELL, bom May 2, 1823; married twice. 

741. vii. MYRON HENRY, bom Mar. 5, 1825; married Emily Lu- 

cinda Fabrique. 

742. viii. GEORGE AARON, (Lieutenant-Governor), bom Dec, 

21, 1826; married Josephine Murray Sebastian. 

743. ix. ORSON KELLOGG, bom at Hinesburg, Feb. 20. 1829; 

died there July 18, 1831. 

744. X. GENEVIEVE DELIA, born Jan. 27, 1831; married George 

Frederick Barstow. 

745. xi. JOHN ALLEN, bom at Hinesburg, Jan. 20, 1833; married 

at Kalamazoo, Mich., Oct. 22, 1856, Vianna Brown; he was 
cashier of a bank at Pern, 111., at the time of his death, 
which occurred shortly after his marriage. 

746. xii. JOSEPH WEED, bom at Richland, Mich., Jan. 15, 1835; 

removed to Lisbon, lU., as soon as he reached man- 
hood; in 1861 he enlisted as a private in the 36th Illinois 
Regiment; was killed, after ahnost three years of service 
at the Battle of Kenesaw Mountain, Ga., when his division 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 153 

was charging the rebel batteries June 27, 1864; his body 
rests in the National cemetery at Marietta, Ga., in one of 
the more than three thousand graves marked "un- 
known "; he was never married. 

290. CYNTHIA HINSDALE" (Aaron^ Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas' 

Roberto, daughter of Aaron Hinsdale and Lucinda Mitch- 
ell, his wife, born at Hinesburg, Vt., September 16, 1792, 
died there December 30, 1869, aged 75. She married 
there, December 2, 1819, Orin Hosford, who was born at 
Charlotte, Vt., January 30, 1791, and died there February 
19, 1868. 

Children, born at Charlotte, Vt. : 

747. i. MYRON HINSDALE, bom Oct. 28, 1821; married Sarah 

Ann Stearns. 

748. ii. DELIA LORAIN, born June 24, 1828; was married at Char- 

lotte, Vt., by Rev. CO. Torrey, Feb. 19, 1877, to Henry 
Ferguson Moore, bom at Peterboro.N. H., Nov. 19, 1826. 

291. JERUSHA HINSDALE" (Aaron'' Joseph* Isaac ^ Barnabas' 

Robert!), daughter of Aaron Hinsdale and Lucinda Mitch- 
ell, his wife, born at Hinesburg, Vt., February 14, 1795, 
died at Rives, Mich., November 30, 1863. She married 
at Hinesburg, April 26, 1812, Stephen Sanford Tyrrell, 
born at New Milford, Conn., January 23, 1789, died at 
Rives, Mich., March 14, 1866. 

Children: 

749. i. PROSPER H., bom Dec. 28, 1812; married Laura M. 

Johnson. 

750. ii. LORAIN, bom at Monkton, Sept. 21, 1814; died there 

Nov. 7, 1816. 

751. iii. CARLOS, born Apr. 14, 1816; married Catherine Brown. 

752. iv. ORIN F., bom Apr. 14, 1816; married Susanna Place. 

753. V. JANE DELIA, born Sept. 23, 1822; married William 

Northup. 

754. vi. CAROLINE CELESTIA, bom March 10, 1826; married 

Jared Arnold. 

755. vii. AMANDA MINERVA, bom Oct. 15, 1829; married Henry 

H. Cronkhite. 

756. viii. MARY LUCINDA, born Oct. 25, 1832; married Reverend 

Theodoric Romeyn Palmer. 

292. BETSEY HINSDALE « (Aaron^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ 

Roberto, daughter of Aaron Hinsdale and Lucinda Mitch- 



154 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

ell, his wife, born at Hinesbiirg, Vt. December 14, 1796, 
died at Monkton, Vt., April 27, 1865, aged 69. She 
married at Monkton, January 1, 1818, Arza Crane Dean, 
who was born at Monkton, February 12, 1795, and died 
there September 19, 1883. 

Children : 

757. i. THALIA, born Oct. 17, 1818; married Medad H. Hurlbut. 

758. ii. LEWIS DENNISON, born Oct. 17, 1820; married Althea 

Fay Hinsdale. (No. 631). 

759. iii. EMILY, born June 12, 1822; married Charles Prindle. 

760. iv. CYNTHIA, born 1825; died March, 1832. 

761. V. CELINDA, born 1829; died February, 1832. 

762. vi. CLEORA, bom Jan. 31, 1832; married Martin B. Ladd. 

763. vii. HELEN A., born Aug. 12, 1834; married Cassius C. 

Pahner. 

293. MYRON HINSDALE « (Aaron^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ 
Robert!), son of Aaron Hinsdale and Lucinda Mitchell, 
his wife, born at Hinesburg, Vt., February 4, 1799, died at 
Grand Rapids, Mich., November 17, 1838, aged 39. He 
was married at Pompey, N. Y., by Hon. E. Litchfield, 
September 24, 1828, at the residence of Truman KeUogg, 
the brother of his bride, to Emily Kellogg, widow 
of Chester Steele. She was born at Hudson, N. Y., Novem- 
ber 11, 1798, and died at Grand Rapids, Mich., May 26, 
1852. In 1833, he removed with his family to Kalama- 
zoo County, Mich., and settled at what was then kno\\Ti as 
Gull Prairie, since caUed Richland. In the spring of 1835, 
he settled at Grand Rapids, Kent County, Mich. ; bought 
of his cousin, Hiram, the hotel on the corner of Monroe and 
Ionia streets, and was proprietor of the same until his 
death. He brought with him from Vermont an excellent 
set of surveyor's instruments, which he had learned to 
use well, and his services as a surveyor were in frequent 
demand among the early settlers, to run the quarter lines 
between the sections and mark the boimdaries of the new 
farms. His nephew, Edwin C. Hinsdale, wrote of him in 
1896: "I well remember the taU and stalwart form of 
this cherished uncle, always loved by his brother's children, 
who were old enough to remember him, but of whom his 
sons can retain no recollection, as he died at Grand Rapids 
at the early age of 39 years." 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 155 

Children : 

764. i. MARION LOUISE, bom July 9,1829; married Judge Sol- 

omon Lewis Withey. 

765. ii. ADELAIDE KELLOGG, born at Hinesburg, Jan. 24, 

1831; died at Cincinnati, O., Aug. 31, 1846. 

766. iii. CAROLINE ANN, bom at Hinesburg, Feb. 26, 1833; died 

at Richland, Mich., Nov. 11, 1833. 

767. iv. CHESTER BINGHAM, (Colonel), bom Sept. 4, 1835; 

married Julie E. Matthews. 

768. V. HENRY MYRON, (Honorable), born March 19, 1837; 

married Mary French Jewett. 

295. SOPHIA HINSDALE « (Aaron^ Joseph^ Isaac" Barnabas^ 
Robert^), daughter of Aaron Hinsdale and Lucinda 
Mitchell, his wife, born May 28, 1803, died at Corydon, 
Ind., September 14, 1846, aged 43. She was married 
at Manckport, Harrison County, Ind., by Rev. Alex- 
ander Williamson, June 29, 1829, to John Rice, who was 
born at Washington, Washington County, Pa., April 16, 
1804, and died at Cr a wfordsville, Ind., February 5, 1898, at 
the advanced age of nearly 94 years. He married, second, 
February 20, 1849, Nancy Baldwin of LouisviUe, Ky., and 
of this marriage' five children were born. Sophia Hinsdale 
was an educated New England woman of great strength 
and decision of character. She came to Indiana in 1827, 
through the influence of a married sister who had preceded 
her as a pioneer resident, intending to engage in teaching, 
which profession she followed for a time and until her mar- 
riage, after which she and her husband settled at Corydon. 
He came to Indiana in 1807, and lived mainly at Corydon. 
During most of his life, he was engaged in milling, and 
trading in grain and stock. 

From Rockville (Ind.) Republican, February 16, 1898. 

"In the spring of 1807 Heiu-y Rice, father of John Rice, 
whose death at the advanced age of nearly 94 years has 
just occurred at Cr a wfordsville, with his wife and six 
children, of whom John was then the youngest, left Wash- 
ington, Pa., and came down the' Ohio river in flat boats, 
stopping first at Tobacco Landing, Harrison county, Ind. 
He purchased and settled upon a farm six miles east of 
Corydon. At this time Indiana was but sparsely settled and 
Indians were numerous, though quite civilized. Some two 



156 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

years later Henry Rice sold this property and removed to 
Corydon. Indiana was still a territory, with its seat of gov- 
ernment at Corydon. He speedily built what at that time 
was considered a large, convenient and comfortable brick 
house, which was used during the sittings of the legislature, 
until the capital was changed to Indianapolis, as a hotel or 
'tavern,' then so termed for the accommodation of that 
deliberative body, and many are the interesting stories John 
Rice has told of his life as a boy in his father's house, 
when that house was filled with Indiana's early law makers. 

"About the time Henry Rice moved to Corydon, Rev. 
Dr. Crowe of Hanover, came to that town and organized 
a Presbj^terian church with Mr. Armstrong and the thor- 
oughly orthodox Pennsylvania Presbyterian, Henry Rice, 
as ruling elders. This office he filled till his death at the 
age of 63 years. 

"Four children more were added to this family after 
removal to Indiana. All who lived to years of maturity 
were upright, honorable Christian men and women, help- 
ful and interested in all that was conducive to the up-build- 
ing and growth of the new country, some of them occupy- 
ing positions of honor and trust in both church and state, 
Presbyterian in Christian faith and Whig or RepubUcan 
in politics. Most of them have reared families trained in 
aU that goes to make good citizens. 

"John Rice is the last of this large family. Born April 
16, 1804, and dying February 5, 1898, he has Uved to see 
great changes in his state and country. His early educa- 
tional advantages were very limited. Carpentering and 
furniture making was his first business. In 1845 he built 
a grist and saw mill at Corydon. It burned in 1859 and 
Mr. Rice removed to New Albany where he successfully 
conducted a milling business till 1861, when it was his 
misfortvme by reason of the war, to have confiscated $8,000 
worth of fiour which he had sh pped to Memphis and New 
Orleans. In 1865 he went to Bloomington, remaining 
there till 1871, when he removed to CrawfordsviUe, where 
he has since resided. Here, for a number of years he 
traded quite successfully in wheat and stock, but advancing 
years and mfirmities caused him to cease active business. 

" In early manhood he made a profession of faith in Christ, 



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uniting with the Presbyterian church at Corydon. He 
was elected an elder in his church soon after his father's 
death. In this capacity, as superintendent of the Sabbath 
school and in many other ways he generously and zealously 
served that church till his removal from Corydon in 1858. 
For years he was identified with the growing interests of 
the town and so strongly and tenderly was he attached to 
it that only since the death of his wife, in 1894, had he 
relinguished the desire that his final resting place should 
be in that village cemetery, on the hill, overlooking the to'^n 
where sleep very many of the loved kindred and friends of 
his youth and earlier manhood. Wherever he resided he 
became a member of the Presbyterian church of that place. 
Center church was his church home at Crawfordsville. 

"Mr Rice was twice married — June 29, 1829, to Miss 
Sophia Hinsdale of Hinesburg, Vermont, an educated New 
England woman of great strength of character, who came 
to Indiana in 1827 through the influence of a married 
sister who had preceded her as a pioneer resident. Miss 
Hinsdale expected to engage in teaching, and did for a 
time. Among the choicest treasures of her oldest living 
daughter is a letter, paper yellow with age, ink faded, 
folded so as to make its own envelope, the had-been seal a 
red wafer, postage, 10 cents. This letter, wTitten early in 
1829, was from Rev. Dr. Crowe, then president of Hanover 
college, asking Miss Hinsdale to take charge of a young 
ladies school, 'Our Daughters.' Instead of accepting 
this offer she became the wife of John Rice, and Corydon, 
Ind., their permanent home, and in the brick house built 
by Henry Rice. September 14, 1846, at the early age of 
43 years she died, leavmg five children, four of whom still 
live: Mrs. Mary E. Truax and Mrs. R. E. Bryant of 
Crawfordsville; Mrs. Annie L. Ryors of Linn, Mo., and 
T. F. Rice of Chicago. 

"February 10, 1849, he married Misa Nancy Baldwin of 
Louisville, Ky., a most estimable and capable woman, who 
filled faithfully and conscientiously the place of mother to 
Mr. Rice's five children. She died January 22, 1894, 
leaving three children: Mrs. Ruth R. Kenton of Spring- 
field, Mo.; Jno. B. Rice of Crawfordsville and Mrs. Hattie 
E. Kent of Topeka, Kan. 



158 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

"In politics Mr. Rice was always Whig or Republican, 
and often referred with pride to the fact that he voted at 
every presidential election from 1828 and for the candidate 
representing his party. 

"But his earthly life has ended. Comparatively speak- 
ing it has been silent and unheralded. Few friends of his 
youth remain, but he has joined a large company that has 
preceded him to that 

'land of pure delight 
Where saints immortal reign.' 

"m. e. t." 

Children, born at Corydon, Harrison County, Ind. : 

769. i. GERTRUDE HOYT, bora May 1, 1830; died Oct. 11, 1845. 

770. ii. EMELINE JUDSON, bom Aug. 5, 1832; died Aug. 

15, 1833. 

771. ill. A son, born Sept. 15, 1833; died same day. 

772. iv. MARTHA EMELINE, bom Nov. 7, 1834; died May 

8, 1842. 

773. v. MARY ELIZABETH, bora Aug. 8, 1836; married 

Reverend William B. Truax. 

774. vi. HENRY MARTYN, bom March 14, 1838; died at Minne- 

apolis, Minn., April 30, 1891 ; he was married at "Washing- 
ton, Ind., by Rev. Augustus Taylor, June 26, 1867, to Mrs. 
Alma Sherman, who died June 12, 1880; no children. 

775. \ai. LYDIA ANN, born Apr. 22, 1840; married Alfred Ryors. 

776. viii. SUSAN HUNTINGTON, bom May 11, 1842; married 

Colonel Robert EUis Bryant. 
771. ix. THEODORE FRELINGHUYSEN, born May 7, 1844; mar- 
ried Edith M. Price. 

778. X. A son, bora and died Sept. 9, 1846. 

296. LOUISA HINSDALE « (Aaron^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ 
Robert^), daughter of Aaron Hinsdale and Lucinda Mitch- 
ell, his wife, born at Hinesbiu-g, Vt., April 4, 1805, died 
at Los Angeles, Cal., October 31 or November 4, 1890. She 
married, Aug. 19, 1823, Henry Lewis Fabrique, born at 
Hinesburg, Vt., July 28, 1798, died at Corydon, Ind., 
December 26, 1849, son of Andrew and Deborah Fabrique. 

Children : 

779. i. MARY ANN, bom June 8, 1824; married Dudley G. Byrn. 

780. ii. EMILY LUCINDA, born Sept. 3, 1827; married Myron 

Hinsdale. 

781. iii. ALLEN HINSDALE, born at Manckport, Ind., Sept. 22, 

1829; died there Sept. 30, 1830. 



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782. iv, NANCY MARIA, born Apr. 12, 1832; married Jacob Hisey, 

Jr. 

783. V. DEBORA LOUISA, bom at Corydon, Ind., July 16, 1834; 

died March 4, 1843, at same place. 

784. vi. HENRY LEWIS, born at Corydon, Sept. 20, 1837; died 

at Kewanee, 111., May 16, 1878. 

785. vii. MYRON DUDLEY, born June|22, 1839; married May 15, 

1867, Jane E. Holcomb. 

786. viii. ANDREW HINSDALE, (Doctor), bom Sept. 9, 1842; 

married Sallie PhiUer. 

787. ix. LUCIA ADELINE, born at Corydon, Apr. 3, 1841; died 

there Nov. 11, 1841. 

788. X. WILLIAM ALEXANDER, born Oct. 17, 1845; married 

Mary E. Clayton 

297. SARAH HINSDILL" (Aaron^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ 

Roberto, daughter of Aaron Hinsdale and Lucinda Mitch- 
ell, his wife, born at Hinesburg, Vt.,May 18, 1807, died at 
Burlington, Vt., September 12 or 13, 1877, aged 70. She 
was married at Hinesburg, by Rev. 0. Hoyt, April 20, 
1825, to Myron Finney, who was born at Monkton, 
Vt., January 28, 1800, and died at WilUston, Vt., August 
18, 1865. Both were buried at Williston. 

Children : 

789. i. MARY LOUISE, born at Monkton, Vt., Dec. 26, 1825; 

died there Dec. 16, 1847. 

790. ii. SOLON HINSDILL, (Lieutenant), bom May 23, 1827; 

married Mariette E. Barstow. 

791. iii. ORSON OVETTE, bom July 8, 1833; married Marion 

Amanda Tyrrell. 

792. iv. SARAH JANE, born July 21, 1837; married Capt. Robert F. 

Judson. 

793. V. NORMAN JOHNSON, bom at Hinesburg, Feb. 24, 1844; 

died at Williston, Vt., Dec. 19, 1869; unmarried. 

794. vi. MYRON HINSDILL, bom Nov. 12, 1846; married Sarah 

Elizabeth Barton. 

298. NANCY HINSDALE" (Aaron^ Joseph^ Isaac^ Barnabas^ 

Robert^), daughter of Aaron Hinsdale and Lucinda Mitch- 
ell, his wife, born at Hinesburg, Vt., June 2, 1809, died in 
Franklin County, Miss., March 9, 1847, aged 38. She mar- 
ried first at Manckport, Ind., at the residence of his brother, 
Henry L. Fabrique, June, 1833, Schuyler S. Fab- 
RiQUE, who died in Mississippi. She married, second, 
June 30, 1842, at Natchez, Miss., Archibald Buie, 



160 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

who was born in North Carolina in 1800 and died Septem- 
ber 13, 1851. 

Child: 

795. i. .\ARON HINSDALE, bom Feb. 25, 1847; married Virginia 
Caroline Hebra. 

299. MARY ANN HINSDALE" (Aaron^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barna- 
bas^ Roberto, daughter of Aaron Hinsdale and Lucinda 
Mitchell, his wife, born at Hinesburg, Vt. July 14, 1811, 
died at Detroit, Mich., February 16, 1864, aged 53. She 
married at Grand Rapids, Mich., April 11, 1838, Hon- 
orable Charles Irish Walker, who was born at 
Butternut, N. Y., April 25, 1814, and died at Flint, Mich., 
March 11, 1895. He was biu-ied at Detroit. She was an 
earnest, active. Christian woman, constantly engaged in 
some benevolent and charitable work. She was the 
friend of the orphan and did much for the relief of the poor 
of the city of Detroit, and many of that city have reason 
to bless her memory. It may be said of her, "she hath 
done what she could," and that was much. She did good 
for its own sake, not caring that her works be known and 
shrinking from all publicity, a rare example of a sincere 
Christian. Mr. Walker was a prominent lawyer of De- 
troit, and professor and lecturer in the Law Department of 
the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, a man widely 
known and honored for his profound legal learning. He 
was a useful and beloved citizen, known and admired 
throughout the state. 

Child: 

796. i. CHARLES HINSDALE, born July 3, 1854; married M. 
Louise HaU. 

300. LUCINDA HINSDALE, PH. D." (Aaron-^ Joseph^ Isaac' 
Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter of Aaron Hinsdale and 
Lucinda Mitchell, his wife, born at Hinesburg, Vt., Septem- 
ber 30, 1814, died at Kalamzoo, Mich., March 14, 1900. 
She was married at Grand Rapids, Mich., by Rev. 
James BaUard, June 10, 1840, to Reverend James An- 
DRUS Blinn Stone, D. D., President of Kalamazoo 
College, who was born at Piedmont, N. H., October 28,1801, 
and died at Kalamazoo, Mich., May 19, 1888. He was a 




MRS. LUCINDA HINSDALE STONE 
No.' 300 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 161 

Doctor of Divinity, a profound scholar, a Baptist Minister, 
and for nearly twenty-five years President of Kalamazoo 
College, an institution of learning conducted under the 
auspices of the Baptist Society. He was a good man, a 
sincere Christian and an excellent instructor. He at one time 
had the misfortune to be maligned and slandered by cer- 
tain persons, who were nominally of his own religious faith, 
but who were in truth unworthy to bear the title of men, 
not to say Christians. However, such attacks only added 
lustre to his character which could not be truthfully assailed. 
Mrs. Stone was in many respects, a remarkable woman. 
Her long life from the time she was fifteen years of age, 
was devoted to study, teachmg, writing, lecturing, and by 
all means in her power, to instructing and elevating her sex 
in the higher branches of learning, thought and literature. 
In this her efforts were constant and untiring and the re- 
sults of her labors are widely known and lovingly recog- 
nized by multitudes of women, not of ]\Iichigan alone, but 
of other states, to whom she has imparted some share of 
her earnestness and enthusiasm, and love for the best 
things in literature and the arts. She has made many 
visits to different coim tries of Europe, each time taking 
young ladies with her, for their instruction as well as plea- 
sure. When fifteen years of age she first taught in a sum- 
mer district school. Her next work as a teacher was in 
the Female Seminary at jMiddlebury, Vt. Afterward she 
taught in the Biulington Female Seminary. Both of these 
institutions had distinguished reputations, and were con- 
sidered second only to the Troy Female Seminarj'^, at the 
head of which was the famous Emma Willard, who was 
her relative. From this school she was invited to become 
teacher in a private family who resided near Natchez, Miss., 
where she continued for tliree 5^ears in the family of a 
planter. The head of the house was a wealthy slave 
owTier, and here, under the most favorable circumstances 
under which the institution could be seen, she studied the 
subject of slavery in all its aspects. This was many years 
before the Civil War. From her own observations and 
experiences in those ante-bellum days, she formed the 
opinion that slavery was, from its primary principles, 
utterly wrong, and she became an earnest abolitionist. 



162 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

She was for many years the prmcipal of the Ladies' Depart- 
ment of Kalamazoo College, of which institution her hus- 
band was the president. She was preeminently a club 
woman, and was lovingly called "the Mother of Clubs." 
The first club which she established was the "Ladies' 
Library Club" of Kalamazoo. This was the first ladies' 
club in all the west, and was second only in date of estab- 
lishment to the Sorosis of New York City and the New 
England Woman's Club of Boston, Nearly every club in 
Michigan has been an outgrowth of the Ladies' Library 
Club of Kalamazoo. The title of Ph. D. was conferred 
upon her several years ago by the University of Michigan, 
and she was the first woman to receive this honor from 
that institution. She was the Honorary President of the 
Michigan Woman's Press Association. She also occupied 
the same position in the State Federation of Woman's 
Clubs. She was also President of the Twentieth Centvu-y 
Club. She was at her death and long before, the best 
known woman in Michigan. Though entering life when 
the "new woman" was as yet undreamed of, she grew 
with the years until she became an edifying example of 
what a woman may become. Her elevating influence was 
widely felt upon the women of the state, and will long be 
felt now that she has passed away. Thousands have rea- 
son to bless her, and to hold her in lasting remembrance. 
Where is the woman, or man, whose life has been better 
lived than that of this gifted, large-souled, enthusiastic 
wife, mother, teacher, traveller, lecturer, writer and 
philanthropist? 

From Denver (Colo.) Post, March 16, 1900. 
A Great Woman and Her Work. 

"A telegram lay on the table before Sanford C.Hinsdale, 
United States Commissioner, in the Federal buildmg. It 
announced briefly the death of Lucmda Hinsdale Stone, 
aged 86 years, at Kalamazoo, Mich., last Wednesday. 

Mrs. Stone was called "The mother of woman's clubs." 
With Julia Ward Howe she was an honorary vice president 
of the General Federation of Woman's Clubs and through- 
out the country was recognized as a staunch supporter of 
organizations for the advancement of her sex. But the 



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reason Commissioner Hinsdale was so deeply grieved was 
that Mrs. Stone was his cousin and it was in her house at 
Kalamazoo, Mich., that he lived when attending Kalamazoo 
College, from which institution he was graduated. For 
nearly half a century the affectionate friendship has con- 
continued; it was only a few weeks ago that she wrote 
him her last letter. 

Mr. Hinsdale's reminiscences of the famous Michigan 
club woman, are interesting, "Probably the name of no 
woman," he said, "has become so much of a household 
word, loved by old and yomig alike. Not only was she 
a thinker and writer, but a friend and woman in the truest 
and best sense of the words. 

"The title of Ph. D. was conferred upon her several 
years ago by the University of Michigan, and she had the 
honor to be the first woman to whom the title was given 
by that institution. It is no exaggeration to say she was 
the best known of Michigan women. She was born in 
Hinesburg, Vt., September 30, 1814, The town is situated 
about half way between the University of Vermont in 
Burlington and Middlebury college. Undoubtedly, as 
Mrs. Stone always thought, the early proximity to these 
two institutions of learning had a great influence on her 
after life. After childhood days in the district school 
Mrs. Stone attended the ladies' seminaries, one at Middle- 
biu-y and the other at Burlington. Her religious teaching 
was of the strongest New England orthodoxy. As she has 
often said, Sunday began with the going down of the sun 
Saturday evening and continued mitil sunset Sunday night, 
after which it was the evening for visiting and receiving 
company. Simday saw no work done, even the beds were 
left untouched, and the dinner was always cold. But 
Sunday evening, after the sun set, saw a good warm sup- 
per. And the preaching was more of the law than of the 
gospel. 

"In those days in Vermont there were not many amuse- 
ments. In winter there were sleighing parties and oyster 
suppers. Dancing parties were few and far between. 
One of the pamful reminiscences of Mrs. Stone's life had 
to do with the threatened exclusion of her older sister, 
Mary Hinsdale, afterwards Mrs. C. L. Walker of Detroit, 



164 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

from the Congregational church of Hinesburg, because 
Mary Hinsdale had gone to a ball as an onlooker. She did 
not dance, but the fact that she was there was matter 
enough for the church to single her out for discipline. The 
only thing that saved her was her obedience to the demand 
to write a public confession, which was read in church to 
the horror-struck congregation by the minister. 

"The first young men's library and lyceum that Mrs. 
Stone ever heard of was located in Hinesburg. To her 
mind the young people of those days were more staid, more 
deep, than those of the present. They were not frivolous; 
in Hinesburg they were interested in matters of the great 
world throbbing around them. Mrs. Stone — Lucinda 
Hinsdale — pursued the studies of Latin and Greek and 
mathematics with young men who were fitting themselves 
for college, although in those days women were not per- 
mitted in colleges. When 15 years of age she first taught 
in a summer district school. She next taught in the fe- 
male seminary at Middlebury, and in the Burlington 
Female seminary. These two institutions had far-reach- 
ing reputations and were considered second only in excel- 
lence to the Troy Female Seminary, at the head of 
which was the famous Miss Emma Willard, a relative of 
Mrs. Stone. Then she went South — to Natchez, Miss., 
where she taught in the family of a wealthy planter. Her 
Northern education had made her a strong abolitionist, 
although this was some years before the war, and Miss Hins- 
dale came North, rejoining some members of her family 
residing at Grand Rapids, Mich. There she was married 
Jime 10, 1840, to Rev. J. A. B. Stone, pastor of the Bap- 
tist church m Gloucester, Mass. After three years' resi- 
dence in Gloucester, Mr. Stone was called to fill a profes- 
sorship in the theological seminary in Newton, Mass. 
This call was followed by one to take charge of a branch 
school of the University of Michigan, at Kalamazoo. The 
institution grew into Kalamazoo college and had Dr. Stone 
as president for twenty years. Mrs. Stone was principal 
of the ladies' department. After resigning from the college 
she conducted a private school, and for several years took 
classes of young women on trips abroad to pursue historical 
and art studies. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 165 

"It was in Kalamazoo that her cKib began. She estab- 
lished the first club in all the West — the Ladies' Library 
Club of Kalamazoo, which was second only in date of 
establishment to the Sorosis of New York City and the 
New England Woman's club of Boston. It is an interest- 
ing fact in this connection that nearly every club in Michi- 
gan is an outgrowth of the original Ladies' Library club. 
The Ladies' Literary club of Grand Rapids is an outgrowth 
of literary classes conducted by Mrs. Stone in that city. 
She had classes in Detroit, Jackson, Coldwater, and other 
cities, and in every place women's clubs have followed her 
classes. 

"Thirty years ago Mrs. Stone wrote 'Western Side,' a 
book of Western pioneer life. She was also a liberal con- 
tributor to magazines, discussing with a splendid pen, 
travel, public issues and the great moral and social ques- 
tions of the day. She has known and entertained bril- 
liant men, and it was one of the most pleasant of her recol- 
lections to recall the visit paid her by Ralph Waldo Emer- 
son at Kalamazoo, when Emerson was lectiu'ing in 'the 
West.' Some one asked him what inducement the tour 
held out. 

" 'I am after f-a-m-e,' slowly speUed the philosopher. 

" 'Fame?' questioned the acquaintance. 

" 'No,' rephed Emerson, 'fifty and my expenses.' 

"Mrs. Stone was a 'new' woman," concluded Commis- 
sioner Hinsdale, "the best type of the woman of today. 
Her influence is gone, but her works will live. She was a 
potent factor in the great evolution of woman, and the 
future will see her name revered even more than it is to- 
day, wherever her work is known." 

From, the Kalamazoo (Mich.) Telegraph, March 14-; 1900: 

"Mrs. Lucinda Hinsdale Stone, Ph. D., passed peace- 
fully away at about 9:30 this morning at her home, 114 
East Lovell street. Death came to close a long, eventful 
and in many ways a remarkable life. It would almost 
seem as though death resulted from a gradual breaking 
down and from the pressure of increased years rather than 
from disease. Her mind had been very clear until about 
2 o'clock this morning when unconsciousness took place. 



166 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

The end was so peaceful that those near scarcely knew 
when the soul slipped away from its mortal habitation. 
Mrs. Stone's son, James Helm Stone of Detroit, his wife 
and children, attended IVIrs. Stone as did also her son's 
wife, Mrs, Clement Stone of Ann Arbor. 

A member of the family said to The Telegraph that 
about 10 o'clock Tuesday evening the Rev. Caroline Bart- 
lett Crane recited to ]\Irs. Stone Temiyson's "Crossmg the 
Bar," Whittier's "Eternal Goodness," and a hynm by 
David Wasson which she had previously requested Mrs. 
Bratlett Crane to have sung at her funeral. She also 
recited New Testament passages and sentences from 
Emerson, and from Browning's "Rabbi Ben Ezra." Mrs. 
Stone indicated her comprehension. 

The funeral will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at 
the People's church. A letter was found addressed to the 
Rev. Caroline Bartlett Crane, giving directions for the 
funeral services and other matters connected with her 
death. Owing to iU health the former is unable to officiate 
and the service wall be conducted by the Rev. Ernest C. 
Smith, minister of the People's church. Mrs. Stone's 
wishes will be followed in every particular. Interment 
will be by the side of her husband, the Rev. J. A. B. Stone, 
D. D., and her two sons, Clement W. and Horatio H., at 
Mountain Home. 

Mrs. Lucinda Hinsdale Stone was born in Hinesburg, Vt., 
September 30, 1814. This place, although small, was the 
seat of one of the best New England academies. The 
town is located about half way between the University of 
Vermont in Burlington and Middlebury college. Mrs. 
Stone believed that proximity to these institutions of 
learning had great mfluence on her later life. After leaving 
the academy Mrs. Stone attended ladies' seminaries at 
Middlebury and at Burlington. The influence from a 
rehgious standpoint on the mind of the child, Lucinda 
Hinsdale, was of the strongest New England orthodoxy. 
As the years passed by Mrs. Stone's exceptional mind 
expanded in many ways and more liberal thought came to 
be hers. She was a thinker along religious lines rather 
than one who accepted creeds without personal investiga- 
tion. During a long life Mrs. Stone had been identified 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 167 

with various churches, for many years with the First Bap- 
tist church; later a member of the First Unitarian church, 
and then of the People's church. With advancing years 
and as more liberal thought became a part of her very life 
Mrs. Stone had the courage of her convictions and always 
identified herself with the religious movements which most 
exemplified in their teachings the creed of her own heart. 
One of the parlors of the People's church is named the Stone 
parlor in memory of her whom this article would honor, 
Anent her early education it may be said that Mrs. 
Stone dug Greek roots, pursued Latin stems and wrestled 
with the stupendous problems of mathematics with the 
young men who were preparing for college, although it 
must be remembered that in those days young women 
were not permitted in the colleges. Three of the principal 
places where Mrs. Stone received early education were at 
Hinesbiu-g academy, in Mrs. Cook's female seminary at 
Middlebury, and in the Burlington female seminary, in 
all of which institutions she afterwards taught. 

As A Teacher 

Much of the influence of the life of Lucmda Stone may 
be said to have been that of the noble art of teaching. 
When but 15 years of age she first taught in a summer 
district school. Her next work was in the female semi- 
nary in Middlebury, an institution second only to the 
Troy female seminary, at the head of which was the famous 
Miss Emma Willard, who was a relative of Mrs. Stone. 
The subject of this sketch was later a private instructor 
for three years in the family of a planter near Natchez, 
Miss. The father of the family was a wealthy slave owner 
and it was here that Mrs. Stone studied for several years 
prior to the civil war, the institution of slavery in all its 
varying vicissitudes. Surrounded by the influence of a 
southern plantation in the ante-bellum days the young 
teacher from the north thorouglily believed that from its 
primary principles slavery was wrong. An earnest aboli- 
tionist, she yet found much in southern life to admire and 
her friendship for this old southern family has been to her 
always a pleasure. While living there Mrs. Stone fre- 
quently met Miss Varina Howell, later Mrs, Jefferson Davis. 



168 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Miss Howell resided on a neighboring plantation and was 
a frequent guest at the Helm mansion. 

On coming north Mrs. Stone first went to Grand Rapids, 
Mich., to reside, as several members of her family Uved in 
that place. It was there that she was married June 10, 
1840, to the Rev. J. A. B. Stone, D. D., who at that time 
was pastor of the Baptist church at Gloucester, Mass. 
After a residence there of three years Mr. Stone was called 
to a professorship in the theological seminary in Newton, 
Mass., while the incumbent of a chair was away. 

Came to Kalamazoo 

In 1843, Prof, and Mrs. Stone came to Kalamazoo to 
take charge of a school known now as the "Old Branch," 
at that time connected with the University of Michigan. 
This institution later became Kalamazoo college and Dr. 
Stone was its president for about 20 years. Mrs. Stone 
was principal of the ladies' department. On the resigna- 
tion of Dr. and Mrs. Stone from this institution Mrs. Stone 
established a private school and built a home for that pur- 
pose on Mount Carmel — the location of the home years 
afterwards occupied by the lamented C. R. Bates and 
later by Senator F. B. Stockbridge, later deceased. The 
school was continued for about five or six years, after which 
Mrs. Stone frequently took classes of young women to 
Eiu"ope for the study of history and art, and of this 
method of pursuing the higher culture this educator 
proved herself almost the founder. 

In 1885, September 23 and 24, there was a reunion of 
former pupils of Dr. and Mrs. Stone. Ladies and gentle- 
men came from many states and there was great rejoicing. 
As teacher and foreign traveler Mrs. Stone has accom- 
plished much. Still greater has been her influence in the 
line of the larger culture. Familiar with the writings of all 
ages and all countries she possessed the power of imparting 
to others much of their meaning to her. It is not too much 
to say that she was a woman of the highest culture and that 
no literary work was too abstruse for her comprehension. 

The Mother of Clubs 
The memory of Lucinda Hinsdale Stone, Ph. D., will be 
perpetuated in history as "The Mother of Clubs." The 



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New England Woman's Club of Boston was the first 
woman's literary club in the United States. The Ladies' 
Literary Club of Kalamazoo was the first in Michigan and 
the second in date of establishment in the United States. 
She once wrote: "The Ladies' Literary Club was the first 
one formed in town and really the first woman's club 
that I know of anywhere imless it was a similar club that 
was formed in the town of Flint, in this state. The 
Ladies' Literary Club was formed by a few ladies in Kala- 
mazoo in 1852, though it was not called a club, but an 
association, for some years; the object was for self-improve- 
ment. It was conducted in all respects almost precisely 
as it is now, and as it was when it took the name of club 
twenty years after, and after the Sorosis and the New 
England Woman's Club were formed." 

It has been claimed that nearly every woman's club in 
Michigan is the outgrowth of the Kalamazoo Club. 

In 1891 for the pm-pose of preparatory study for the 
world's fair, Mrs. Stone established the Isabella Club of Kala- 
mazoo from which developed the Twentieth Centm-y Club 
of which she was president at the time of her death and of 
which Mrs. W. D. Upjohn is the efficient vice-president. 
]\Irs. Upjohn in every way has relieved Mrs. Stone and 
assumed for her the duties of this important office. Some 
years ago Mrs. Stone established the Douglas Club of 
Kalamazoo. This was for colored people, in whom she had 
always taken the most active interest. She at one time 
conducted literary classes in Grand Rapids and the out- 
growth of these is now one of the most powerful woman's 
clubs in Michigan — The Ladies' Literary Club, whose 
meetings are held in their beautiful club house. In many 
of the towns and cities of Michigan Mrs. Stone has taught 
classes and among them are Grand Rapids, Jackson, Bay 
City, Dowagiac, Coldwater, Saginaw, Port Huron, St. 
Clair, Alpena, Adrian, Monroe, Hillsdale, Lansing, Char- 
lotte, Jackson, Detroit, Eaton Rapids, Flint, Dearborn and 
Battle Creek. Clubs for women have followed these 
classes. 

Mrs. Stone's great work of training hundreds and thou- 
sands of young women in literary lines throughout the 
state was recognized by the University of Michigan in 1891 



170 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

when that Institution conferred upon her the degree of 
Ph. D. Mrs. Stone was the first woman to be thus honored 
by the U. of M. A large portrait of her which was pur- 
chased by various women's clubs of Michigan hangs in the 
art gallery at the University. The picture is an enlarged 
photograph which hung in the parlor of the Michigan build- 
ing at the world's fair, Chicago. She has been honorary 
member of more than fifty western clubs which have fol- 
lowed the first club organized by her and was the honorary 
president of the State Federation of Women's Clubs. 
Among the clubs of Michigan in which Mrs. Stone was an 
honorary member was the Ladies' Literary Club of Men- 
don. A few months ago she wrote to Mrs. Alex Custard of 
Mendon a letter, which closed with these words: "My 
dear friend, we have to get near the end of life before we 
can realize truly what life is." Mrs. Stone throughout a 
long literary life displayed prodigious industry, study and 
• a wonderful versatility. When over 70 years of age she 
took up the study of Spanish. 

As A Writer 

Not only as a student, thinker, teacher and organizer, 
will her name be remembered through the years, but as a 
writer she has enshrined the personality of her thought. 
The conditions and experiences of early days in the west 
have been conserved by Mrs. Stone in her book, "Western 
Side." She composed its pages half a century ago amid 
•the many duties of her remarkably busy life. The beauty 
of her thought and language has been preserved in m .ga- 
zines. Grand as is the mission of a good book, a thoughtful 
article in a magazine, there is yet another field for the pen 
which reaches thousands upon thousands of readers every 
day and evening. The press is the six-day pulpit, and 
from the press, the pinnacle of plain literature, has Mrs. 
Stone reached hundreds of thousands of readers. Social 
and moral issues have been freely discussed in the columns 
of the newspapers by Mrs. Stone. Among the many news- 
papers in which her articles have appeared is the Kalama- 
zoo Telegraph, which has from time to time published 
many interesting columns from her pen. Mrs. Stone's 
letters of travel in foreign countries have been published 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 171 

in many newspapers and are very comprehensive. The 
style is strong and the diction pure. Mrs. Stone's zeal 
for truth and progress was remarkable in its strength. 
For years Mrs. Stone had been the honorary president of 
the Michigan Woman's Press Association. The literary 
work of Mrs. Stone was continued almost at the close of 
life. Among the last articles from her pen was a contribu- 
tion to the Twentieth Century^Club regarding the daughter 
of the Scotch poet, Robert Burns. 

Coterie of Friends 

Few women in this century have had closer acquaint- 
ance with a larger number of men and women distin- 
guished in public life than Mrs. Stone. She had intimate 
association with anti-slavery leaders, among whom were 
William Lloyd Garrison, Lydia Maria Childs, Parker 
Pillsbury, and Frederick Douglass. She was a most earn- 
est colleague of those recognized great reformers — Mrs. 
Julia Ward Howe, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone 
Blackwell and Susan B. Anthony. In Mrs. Stone's home 
have been entertained a number of these distinguished men 
and women. She not only knew personally many public 
people but kept herself in close touch with their work. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mrs. Stone were close friends 
and with this foremost American she corresponded for 
years. Emerson gave her earnest letters of introduction 
to some of his literary friends in Eiu-ope — Mrs. Gaskell 
and Miss Muloch. Then there was Bronson Alcott, a great 
follower of Emerson, who visited Dr. and Mrs. Stone a 
week at a time and in whose home Mrs. Stone was also a 
guest. Admiral Dewey in his younger days was a friend 
— met on one of her sojourns in Greece. 

Mrs. Stone's large mental activity commenced when the 
"new" woman was not yet heard of, but with rareness and 
richness of a wonderful mentality there was withal a sweet 
simplicity of natiu-e, a charming refinement, and all of 
true womanliness. With a remarkable intellect she was 
not less the true mother. Engaged in study, in teaching, 
in writing, in organizing clubs and in the general promul- 
gation of knowledge, this woman has been the mother of 
three children — Clement, deceased, of Ann Arbor; Hor- 



172 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

atio, deceased, of Kalamazoo; and James H. Stone, of 
Detroit, the three of whom were one time owners of the 
Kalamazoo Telegraph. Of Mrs. Stone's son James H., it 
it may be said that he is senior member of one of the 
largest printing houses in Detroit. In 1874 he went to 
Port Huron as publisher of the Times. In 1878 he assumed 
the management of the Post and Tribune, Detroit, now the 
Tribune, Later he became owTier of that paper, which 
he finally sold. Mr. Stone has also been collector of in- 
ternal revenue at Detroit and is now publishing many of 
the periodicals issued in that city. 

Rest has come to this Kalamazoo woman of whom all 
are justly proud. Living, she belonged not alone to those 
of her own kin, for hers was an activity which touched 
the lives of every woman in this city. Entered upon that 
journey "from whose bourne no traveler returns," and into 
the rest eternal, the memory of her life that seemed touched 
with a fire divme, belongs not alone to her lineal descend- 
ants who bear her name, but to the people of this city, who 
rejoice that her home was in Kalamazoo. Her life is en- 
shrined the deepest in the hearts of those who knew her 
best and who were permitted to call her friend. Years 
will never be so many that her name, her deeds, her life, 
will be forgotten in Kalamazoo, in Michigan, and in many 
parts of the United States. Even those of foreign lands 
will call her blessed. All honor be to her sacred memory. 
May the years of the Great Beyond be lovely tliroughout 
eternity to our friend — the woman so loved — Mrs. 
Lucinda Hinsdale Stone, Doctor of Philosophy. 

Mrs. Stone's lineal descendants have been as follows: 
Clement, deceased; his children. Dr. C. P. Stone, a den- 
tist practicing at Saginaw; Miss Carrie Lucile Stone, a 
student at the U. of M. ; Horatio, Mrs. Stone's son who died 
in 1870 unmarried. A son, James H. Stone of Detroit, 
whose children are Webster, Lucile and Blinn, all of De- 
troit." 

From '^The Chicago Evening Post," January 5, 1906: 

"The Michigan federation has raised $5,000 for the Lu- 
cinda Hinsdale Stone memorial scholarship fund. Mrs. 
Stone was the pioneer club worker in Michigan." 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 173 

Children : 

797 i. CLEMENT WALKER, (Captain), bom May 30, 1841; 

married Caroline Moore. 

798 u. HORATIO HACKETT, bom at Kalamazoo, Mich., Dec. 7, 

1843; died there Mar. 4, 1870. 

799. iii. JAMES HELM, bom July 19, 1847; married Margaret 

Clare Webster. 

301. GILES SEYMOUR HINSDALE" (Jacob' Joseph* Isaac' 
Barnabas' Robert^, son of Jacob Hinsdale and Hannah 
Cook, his wife, married Rebecca Hoose, daughter of 
Barnabas Hoose of Burlington, Vt., and Polly Lincoln, 
his wife. 

Children : 

800. i. OSCAR, bom Aug. 28, 1828; married, but had no children; 

drowned in California with his brother Orson. 

801. ii. EDGAR, bom Feb. 14, 1830; married Phebe A. Griswold. 

802. iii. ORSON, bom Jan. 6, 1832; unmarried; drowned in 

California with his brother Oscar. 

803. iv. HANNAH C, bom Feb. 22, 1834; unmarried; lives with 

her brother Mitchell, at St. George, Vt. 

804. V. POLLY ANN, born Mar. 5, 1836; died Oct. 3, 1894; mar- 

ried a Mr. Cave; lived in California; had three children, 
one son and two daughters; the younger daughter, Ella, 
a teacher, was graduated at Woodland, Cal. 

805. vi. SEYMOUR S., born Apr. 23, 1841, married Elizabeth 

Cave. 

806. vii. MITCHELL W., bom at St, George, Vt., Apr. 4, 1844; 

married, first, Hannah M. Small, who died Apr. 9, 1900; 
they had one child, Nora Elaine, bom July 24, 1899; 
married, second, June 5, 1902, Laura Small White; they 
have one child, Clark Wesley, bom May 27, 1903. He 
lives at St. George; enlisted in the Union Army in 1864. 

807. viii. NORMAN, bom Dec. 10, 1847. 

306. JACOB HINSDALE HURLBUT' (Chloe Hinsdale ^ Joseph* 
Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert'), son of Jeremiah Hurlbut 
and his second wife, Chloe Hinsdale, born at Bristol, 
Vt., June 17, 1800, died November, 1875. He married, 
August, 1845, Betsey V. Hatch, of Vergennes, Vt., who 
died there August, 1858. 

Children : 

808. i. ELLEN FRANCES, born at Vergennes, August, 1846. 

809. ii. Son, died in infancy. 

810. iii. Daughter, died in infancy. 



174 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

309. LUCYHURLBUT« (Chloe Hinsdale' Joseph* Isaac^ Bar- 

nabas^ Robert^), daughter of Jeremiah Hurlbut and his 
second wife, Chloe Hinsdale, born at Bristol, Vt., March 
25, 1806; died January, 1879. She married, March 24, 
1833, Elisha Anson Hyde, of Panton, Vt., who died at 
Essex, Vt., February 20, 1840, son of Calvin and Orpha 
Hyde, of Panton, He was a teacher for several years be- 
fore marriage. In 1863 his widow resided at Fairfax, Vt. 

ChHd: 

811. i, MILTON CALVIN, born at Essex. Vt., Nov. 5, 1835; grad- 

uated at New Hampshire Institution at Fairfax, Vt., in 
1856; in 1863 was Principal of the Black River Academy 
at Ludlow, Vt. 

310. ABIGAIL HURLBUT' (Chloe Hinsdale' Joseph* Isaac' 

Barnabas^ Robert^), daughter of Jeremiah Hurlbut and 
his second wife, Chloe Hinsdale, born at Bristol, Vt., 
January 20, 1808, died April, 1885. She married at Pan- 
ton, Vt., October 29, 1827, Thomas Gardner. 

Children : 

812. i. EDWIN W., born at Panton, Vt., Oct. 26, 1829. 

813. ii. TRUMAN G., born at Panton, Oct. 16, 1836. 

814. iii. MAGGIE A., born at Panton, Mar. 21, 1839. 

815. iv. HELEN M., born at Panton, Oct. 29, 1843. 

816. V. D. EDSON, born Aug. 28, 1845. 

817. vi. LOUISA A., born Dec. 16, 1847. 

313. DEACON STEPHEN PARSONS" (Rhoda Hinsdale' Jona- 
than* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Elisha Parsons, 
Jr. and Rhoda Hinsdale, his wife, born July 12, 1788, 
died May 27, 1838. He married Mary Eldredge of 
Ashfield, Mass. 

Children, born at Goshen, Mass.: 

818. i. EUNICE, bom Mar. 18, 1813; married Freeman Sears. 

819. ii. ALVAN, bom July 18, 1817. 

820. iii. RHODA, bom Dec. 5, 1819; died July 17, 1850; married, 

Mar. 20, 1845, Jonathan Sears, Jr. 

316. MOSES HINSDALE* (David^ Jonathan* Isaac^ Barnabas^ 
Robert!), son of David Hmsdale and Farazma Bemis, 
his wife, born at Lenox, Mass., October 23, 1778, died 
at Pompey, Onondaga County, N. Y., April 26, 1857. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 175 

He married, first, November 9, 1800, Rachel Hibbard, 
born May 15, 1774, died October 6, 1841. He married, 
second, January 23, 1843, Phebe Underwood, who died 
June 30, 1882. He resided at Pompey. 

Children, born at Pompey, N. Y.: 

By his first wife, Rachel Hibbard. 

821. i. ELI BERNARD, born Sept. 29, 1803; died Apr. 13,1856; he 

purchased a farm at Salina, N. Y., where he died; is 
buried at Manlius, N. Y. 

822. ii. HARRIET, born June 3, 1805; married David Barber, 

823. iii. MARY, born June 10, 1807; married John S. Wells. 

824. iv. ELIZA, born Oct. 26, 1809; married Leman Baker Pitcher. 

825. V. SMIUEL HIBBARD, born Nov. 2, 1811; died July 28. 1886; 

married at Camillus, Onondaga Co., N. Y., Nov. 1, 1836, 
Rhoda Eveline Bennett, born Sep. 3, 1811; they lived 
at CamUlus. 

826. vi. DAVID HIBBARD, born Apr. 25, 1814; married Sophia 

Hatch Noyes. 

827. vii. STEPHEN,bornFeb. 14, 1816; married Mary Ann Barber. 

828. viii. MYRAETTE H., born Mar. 19, 1818; married Dan Fair- 

banks. 

829. ix. PERRY H., born Apr. 21, 1820; married twice. 

830. X. MOSES BEMIS, bom June 17, 1822; died Sept. 20, 1861; 

married 1848. 

317. CHAUNCEY HINSDALE « (David^ Jonathan^ Isaac^ Bar- 
nabas^ Robert!) , son of David Hinsdale and Farazina Be- 
mis, his wife, born at Lenox, Mass., June 10, 1780, died at 
Pompey, N. Y., November 18, 1859. He married at Broad 
Albion, N. Y,, October 3, 1802, Susanna Briggs, who 
was born at Sufheld, Conn., February 16, 1781, and died 
at Pompey, January 10, 1856. The homestead of his fa- 
ther David at Pompey, N. Y,, passed into his hands and he 
lived there imtil his death. His descendants still own it. 

Children, born at Otisco, N. Y. : 

831. i. POLLY, born Sept. 11, 1805; died at Otisco, Feb. 25, 1809. 

832. ii. ELI, born July 12, 1807; died at Otisco, Feb. 25, 1809. 

833. iii. ELVIRA, born Aug. 17, 1810; diedatPompey,N. Y., Jan. 

27, 1845. 

834. iv. SUSAN, born Feb. 23, 1813; married Nelson CasweU. 

835. V. FAROZINA, born May 25, 1815; died at Pompey, Feb. 24, 

1883; married at Pompey, Apr. 17, 1838, David Hib- 
bard, born Mar. 13, 1813; they lived at Pompey; no 
children. 



176 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

836. vi. OLIVE, bom Jan. 27, 1818; diedatPompey,Mar.29, 1842; 

married Sept. 29, 1839, Addison Clapp; no children. 

318. ASAHEL HINSDALE" (David' Jonathan* Isaac" Barna- 

bas' Roberto, son of David Hinsdale and Farazina Bemis, 
his wife, born at Lenox, Mass., February 29, 1782; died 
October 12, 1812. He married at Pompey, N. Y., February 
10, 1805, Hadassah Clapp, who was born March 25, 
1785, and died November 30, 1835. 

Children ! 

837. i. PARMELA, bom July 31, 1806; died Mar. 15 1808. 

838. ii. EDMUND, bom Dec. 28, 1808; died Aug. 25, 1809. 

839. iii. ASAHEL BEMIS, bom Oct. 21, 1810; married Eliza Inslee 

Hanks. 

840. iv. BERNARD, born Oct. 12, 1812; married Mary McCluskey. 

319. DAVID HINSDALE, JR.« (David" Jonathan* Isaac' Bar- 

nabas^ Roberto, son of David Hinsdale and Farazina 
Bemis, his wife, born at Lenox, Mass., March 24, 1784, died 
Jime 27, 1853. He married at Camillus, Onondaga County, 
N. Y., October 12, 1809, Mary McCracken, born Decem- 
ber 5, 1789. 

Children : 

841. i. IRA, born July 21, 1810; married Ann Peck. 

842. ii. TIRA, born Oct. 30, 1811; married James O. Bennett. 

843. iii. MARY, born Aug. 8, 1813; died Sept. 26, 1813. 

844. iv. AARON T., born Aug. 28, 1814; died Aug. 26, 1836. 

320. SALLY HINSDALE « (David" Jonathan* Isaac" Barnabas^ 

Roberto, daughter of David Hinsdale and Farazina Be- 
mis, his wife, born at Lenox, Mass., January 26, 1786, died 
April 8, 1864. She married at Pompey, N. Y., August 10, 
1807, John Clapp, born January 24, 1787, died Sep- 
tember 6, 1844. 

Children : 

845. i. FAROZINA, born July 22, 1810; married James Dunning. 

846. ii. MELITAELIZABETH,bomSep.21,1811; married Doctor 

John S. Briggs. 

847. iii. ADDISON H., born Apr. 25, 1813; married twice. 

848. iv. EDMUND O., born Apr. 2, 1814; married Laura Eunice 

Dana. 

849. V. An infant son, bom Aug. 28, 1815; died Sept. 4, 1815. 




JONATHAN HINSDELL 
No. 323 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 177 

850. vi. S.^RAHETTE, bom July 26, 1816; died at Hastings, N.Y., 
Sept. 7, 1849; married at Hastings, Jan., 1846, Zebediah 
Dunning, Jr.; they had no children. 

851. vii. THERESA, bom Apr. 26, 1819; married Chester Baker. 

852. \iii. MARY, born May 4, 1821. 

853. Lx. RHODA, born Aug. 8, 1822; married Doctor Harvey Toll- 

man. 

854. X. FLORA, bom Dec. 31, 1827; married Charles Waters Reed. 

323. JONATHAN HINSDELL " (David^ Jonathan* Isaac' Bar- 
nabas^ Roberti), son of David Hinsdale and Farazina Bemis 
his wife, born at Galway, N. Y., March 13, 1791, died March 
25, 1875. He married, first, at Hector, Schuyler County, 
N. Y., Sally Lotte, born August 15, 1791, died Au- 
gust 29, 1827. He married, second, at Hector, Levyna 
Hamilton, born August 30, 1807, daughter of David 
Hamilton, born February 11, 1788, and Jerusha Hewlett, 
his wife, born May 20, 1786. He removed to Dundee, 
Kane County, 111. 

Children : 

By his first wife, Sally Lotte, all bom at Hector, N. Y. 

855. i. ELIZABETH, bom Jan. 15, 1815; died July 29, 1816. 

856. ii. STEPHEN, bom July 22, 1816; died June 3, 1818. 

857. iii. LUCETTA,bomApr.6,1819; married William B. Howard. 

858. iv. MARTHA, bom Nov. 5,1820; married Ebenezer N.Miller. 

859. v. CHARLOTTE, born June 16, 1823; married Alexander 

McMillan. 

860. vi. DAVID C, bom Aug 12, 1825; married Sarah J. Lower. 
By his second wife, Levyna H.\milton, all born at Dundee, lU. 

861. ^^i. EUNICE LEVINA, born June 14 or 15, 1840; married Joel 

Haven. 

862. viii. ROBERT HA]VIILTON, bom May 22,1842; married Mary 

Etta Simpson. 

863. ix. SARAH JERUSHA, born Apr. 29, 1844; died Mar. 7,1847. 

864. X. MARY ANN, bom June 3, 1846; married George Hayes; has 

several children. 

865. xi. GEORGE WILLLAM, bom Apr. 16, 1852; married Ada 

Gilbert. 

326. IRA HINSDALE" (David^ Jonathan^ Isaac' Barnabas' 
Robert!), son of David Hinsdale and Farazina Bemis, his 
wife, born at Pompey, N. Y., June 26, 1797, died at Ox- 
bow, N. Y., March 24, 1882. He married at Pom- 
pey, November 4, 1818, Hannah Stephens, who was 
born at Norfolk, Conn., November 6, 1797, and died at 



178 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Oxbow, N. Y., November 25, 1879, daughter of John 
Stephens and Ann Woodworth, his wife. John Stephens 
was a drummer imder General Washington, and was a 
poet and vocahst. Ira Hinsdale was one of the pioneers 
of the town of Antwerp, Jefferson County, N. Y,, settling 
there after his marriage. On retiring from farm life he re- 
moved to the village of Oxbow, and lived there until his 
death. He was a man of remarkable originality, energy, 
and staunch, sturdy ambition; well read and a useful 
man in his town. His wife was a beautiful, superior 
woman, a gentle and devoted mother and wife. 

Children : 

866. i. GEORGE, born Nov. 11, 1819; married Harriet Ann Hamlin. 

867. ii. ELIZABETH, born July 9, 1821; married Jan. 12, 1841. 

868. ill. NANCY HIBBARD, bom June 20, 1823; married Nicoll 

J. Cooper. 

869. iv. DAVID SCHUYLER, born Apr. 27, 1825; married Ann 

Julia Bostwick. 

870. V. HELEN, born June 18, 1827; married Moses Rich. 

342. REVEREND JUSTIN PARSONS" (Rebecca Sheldon" 
Benjamin Sheldon^ Maj-y Hinsdale^ SamueP Robert'), son 
of Benjamin Parsons and Rebecca Sheldon, his wife, was 
born at Northampton, Mass., July 19, 1759. In July, 
1776, when eighteen years old, he volunteered at Goshen, 
Massachusetts, in Captam Oliver Lyman's company, imder 
Colonel Woodbridge, and worked on the fortifications at 
Dorchester Heights, near Boston, serving at that time 
about four months. In May, 1777, as a member of Cap- 
tain Banister's company, under Colonel Wells, he engaged 
in the defense of Ticonderoga, marched to Mt. Inde- 
pendence, and was at the battle of the French Lines, near 
that place. Later, he responded to a call for volunteers, 
imder Colonel Stafford, for the defense of Vermont, but the 
battle of Bennington was fought before they arrived on 
the field. For his Revolutionary service Mr. Parsons re- 
ceived a pension in 1832. He resided for twenty years 
after the war at Goshen, Massachusetts, and represented 
it in the General Court in 1805. He studied theology with 
his pastor, the Rev. Mr. Whitman, a graduate of Harvard, 
and the Rev. Dr. West of Stockbridge, Mass., a graduate 



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MRS. HANNAH STEPHENS HINSDALE 
No. 326 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 179 

of Yale. Entering the ministry, he was settled over the 
Congregational church in Whitney, Vt., and later, from 
1814 to 1831, over the imited churches of Pittsfield and 
Stockbridge, Vt., and afterwards located at Strongs ville 
and Ridge ville, 0. He was a contributor to the support 
of Oberlin College, and was deeply interested in the anti- 
slavery cause, to further which he likewise contributed. 
In 1823, Mr. Parsons, then of Royalton, was a delegate 
to the General Convention of Congregational and Presby- 
terian ministers in Vermont, convened at Ludlow on the 
second Tuesday in September. He died at Ridgeville, 
Lorain County, O., April 26, 1847, and was buried at Ober- 
lin, Ohio. Reverend Justin Parsons was four times mar- 
ried. His first wife, whom he married February 9, 1786, 
was his cousin Lucretia Parsons, who was born August 
11, 1759, and died at Goshen, December, 1786, daughter of 
Elihu Parsons and Sarah Edwards, his wife, daughter of 
the eminent divine. Reverend Jonathan Edwards. He 
married, second, October 30, 1788, Electa Frary, who 
was born November 28, 1759, and died at Goshen, 
January 30, 1824, daughter of Captain Nathan Frary, and 
Elizabeth Barnard, his wife. She was also a descendant 
of Deacon Robert Hinsdale. He married, third, Hannah, 
who died at Ridgeville, O., December 14, 1841, aged 60. 
He married, fourth, in Ohio, February 7, 1842, Prudence 
Ross, who survived him. 

Children, born at Goshen, Mass. 

By his second wife, Electa Frary. 

871. i. LUCRETIA, born July 26, 1789; married Reverend Daniel 

Oliver Morton. 

872. ii. IRA, bom Dec. 29, 1790; died Jan. 30, 1857; married 

Theodosia BardweU of South Hadley, Mass. 

873. iii. LEVI, (Reverend) , born July 18, 1792; died Feb. 10, 1822. 

874. iv. LUTHER, born Nov. 16, 1795; died about 1883; married 

twice; his widow died about 1888, leaving a son, Levi 
Morton Parsons. 

875. V. CALVIN, born Feb. 25, 1798; died Aug. 21, 1803. 

876. vi. ELECTA, born May 16, 1800; died Feb. 2, 1804. 

877. vii. ELECTA, born May 3, 1804; died Dec. 16, 1816. 

350. SAMUEL HINSDALE, 3rd« (SamueP Samuel* Mehuman» 
SamueP Robert^), son of Samuel Hinsdale, Jr. and Mary 
Stebbins, his wife, born January 25, 1784, died April 28, 



180 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

1871. He married, January 15, 1807, Sally Clark, born 
November 5, 1789, died April 26, 1844, daughter of Na- 
thaniel Clark of Colerain, Mass. He Uved at Greenfield, 
Mass., and was a leading citizen, holding various town 
offices. 

Children, all born at Greenfield, Mass.: 

878. i. GEORGE CLARK, bom Dec. 29, 1807; married Elizabeth 

Baggs. 

879. ii. EMILY, bom Jan. 1, 1810; unmarried; died about 1901. 

880. iii. MARY STEBBINS, bom Aug. 14,1812; married E. H. 

Ross. 

881. iv. GIDEON STEBBINS, bom June 30, 1814; died Mar. 26, 

1834; umnarried. 

882. V. SAMUEL DEXTER, born June 4, 1816; married twice. 

883. vi. SALLY MARIA, bom Oct. 13, 1818; died Apr. 4, 1843; 

unmarried. 

884. vii. JULIA H., bom Dec. 29, 1820; married June 16, 1860, 

L. H. Long of Greenfield, Mass.; living in 1897; no 
children. 

885. viii. MARTHA, born Apr. 22, 1823; married Apr. 9, 1850, 

Isaac Baker, who died at Walnut Bend, Pa., July 23, 
1891; she was living in 1897; no children. 

886. ix. ELIHU LYMAN, born Dec. 17, 1826; died at Dead- 

wood, Cal., Aug. 15, 1853; unmarried. 

887. X. FANNY, bom Apr. 1, 1830; died at Greefield, Mass., Dec. 

27, 1904; unmarried. 



358. REBECCA HINSDALE « (ArieP Samuel* Mehuman' SamueP 
Roberto, daughter of Corporal Ariel Hinsdale and Thank- 
ful Severance, his wife, born October 14, 1774, died April 
30, 1836, aged 62. She married, 1794, Thomas Smead, 
born December 12, 1768, died April 14, 1837, the son of 
Lemuel Smead. 

Children : 

888. i. IRA, bom Sept. 1794; died Oct. 8, 1802. 

889. ii. ESTHER, born Oct. 9, 1796; married WilUam Merriam. 

890. iii. SARAH, born July 22, 1799; married Nahum Adams. 

891. iv. THOMAS, bom Jan. 20, 1803; died May 4, 1836. 

892. V. MEHITABLE, born July 29, 1805; died Dec. 18, 1871. 

893. vi. WILLIAM, born about Oct. 1, 1807; died Apr. 1, 1808. 

894. vii. HARRIET, born Sept. 7, 1809; married Sept. 23, 1856, 

Hugh McClellan. 

895. viii. AMELIA, bom May 7, 1813; died Oct. 16, 1833. 

896. ix. WARREN, bom Jan. 9, 1815; married Abigail Sage. 



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359. DARIUS HINSDALE « (ArieP Samuel^ Mehuman' SamueP 
Roberti), son of Corporal Ariel Hinsdale and Thankful 
Severance, his wife, born July 11, 1776, died March 17, 
1832; married March, 1800, Electa Graves, daughter of 
Ebenezer Graves. She died March 7, 1851, aged 72. 

Children : 

897. i. DAVID A., born 1801; died Nov. 3, 1822. 

898. ii. CHESTER, bom Dec. 16, 1803; married, Mar. 14, 1826, 

Lucy Allen, daughter of Ruel Allen. 

899. iii. ARIEL, born Dec. 4, 1805; married, first, Nov. 20, 1830, 

Ann Smith, daughter of Chester Smith; she died June 
14, 1836, aged 24; he married, second, Amaret Work- 
man of Colerain, Mass. 

900. iv. FIDELIA. 

901. v. MARY ANN, born Feb. 17, 1812. 

902. vi. EBENEZER, born at Greenfield, Mass., Sept. 19, 1817; 

married Harriet Jemima Newcomb. 

402. HORACE HINSDALE^ (EHsha" Jacob'^ Jacob* Barnabas^ 

Barnabas^ Roberti), son of Captain Ehsha Hinsdale and 
his first wife, Asenath Barnes, born at Canaan, Conn., 
February 11, 1786, died of consumption at Leroy, N. Y., 
May 31, 1818, aged 32. He married Lois Hitchcock. 
They moved to Vernon, N. Y. He was a blacksmith. 

Children : 

903. i. ASENATH. 

904. ii. HERMAN. 

403. HERMAN HINSDALE ' (Elisha" Jacob^ Jacob* Barnabas' 

Barnabas' Roberti), son of Captain Elisha Hinsdale and 
his first wife, Asenath Barnes, born at Canaan, Conn., 
March 31, 1789, died at Hudson, O., September 13, 1831, 
aged 42. He married Lucy Drake of Torrington, Conn, , 
who died in 1876. She married, second, Owen Brown, 
father of the celebrated John Brown of Ossowattamie, by 
a former marriage. Herman Hinsdale came to Ohio in 
1819. He was a joiner by trade. He was industrious, 
honest, very affable, a good man. He died at Hudson of 
typhoid fever. 



I Children 



905. i. ELEANOR, bomSept. 18,|1818; married Sylvester Bissell; 
reside in Aurora, O. 



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906. ii. ABI CORNELIA, bom Mar. 7, 1820; died Jan. 14,1883; 

married J. R. Brown. 

907. iii. FIDELIA, born Jan. 4, 1822; died Nov. 8, 1876; married 

Sylvester Croy. 

908. iv. JULIUS, born Feb. 12, 1824; died Feb. 21, 1826. 

909. V. MARY, bom Oct. 31. 1825; married P.B.Hall; resides in 

Hudson, O. 

910. vi. MOSES, born Oct. 1, 1827; died Feb. 12, 1828. 

911. vii. HERMAN, born Dec. 25, 1828; died Nov. 25, 1839. 

912. viii. LAURENCE M., born Jan. 12, 1831; died Oct. 27, 1876; 

married Mary Root. 



404. ELISHA HINSDALE ' (Elisha" Jacob= Jacob* Barnabas" 
Barnabas^ Robert'); son of Captain Elisha Hinsdale and 
his first wife, Asenath Barnes, born at Canaan, Conn., 
April 23, 1791, died near Adrian, Mich., of heart disease, 
February 4, 1856. He married Ophelia Whiting, daugh- 
ter of Giles Whiting of Torrington, Conn., who lived past 
ninety years. He came to Ohio in 1817, first settling at 
Hudson, then removing to Norton in 1822, and thence in 
1831 to Michigan. He was a blacksmith; was quite a me- 
chanic and musician. He was industrious and carried on 
a good farm. He served as justice of the peace, coroner, 
and in many public capacities. He was of rather a rest- 
less turn of mind, fond of new things and friends. 

Children : 

913. i. WHITING D., born Dec. 12, 1814; mamed Abigail Ann 

Bennett. 

914. ii. ROSAMOND F., born Dec. 24, 1816; died June 11, 1840. 

915. iii. DELIA, born Sept. 25, 1820; died in Ohio, July 23, 1822. 

916. iv. ELISHA J., born July 5, 1827; married Elizabeth Dolph. 

406. SHERMAN HINSDALE ' (Elisha* Jacob^ Jacob^ Barnabas^ 
Barnabas^ Roberti), son of Captain Elisha Hinsdale and 
his first w^ife, Asenath Barnes, born March 12, 1800, died at 
Wellington, 0., August 30, 1859. His mother died when 
he was five days old. He married Eliza Oviatt, of Hud- 
son, 0. He first settled at Norton, 0., but removed to 
Wellington, where he died of typhoid fever. He was a 
farmer, very honest and conscientious, and persevering in 
his habits. After his death and his wife's, his children 
went west. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 183 

407. ASENATH HINSDALE ' (Elisha« Jacob' Jacob* Barnabas" 

Barnabas^ Roberti), daughter of Captain Elisha Hinsdale 
and his second wife, Ehzabeth Holcomb, born at Torring- 
ton, Conn., April 28, 1803, died at Norton, 0., July 3, 
1833. She married Edward Spicer. She was much like 
her father; was good looking, rather fleshy, but quite ac- 
tive, cheerful, amiable, good company, and an estimable 
woman. 

Child: 

917. ELIZABETH, married Charles Martin; lives in Henry Co. ,0. 

408. ALBERT HINSDALE^ (Elisha" Jacob' Jacob* Barnabas'" 

Barnabas^ Robert^), son of Captain Elisha Hinsdale and 
his second wife, Elizabeth Holcomb, born at Torrington, 
Conn., July 18, 1809, died at Wadsworth, 0., August 14, 
1882. He married, January, 1834, Clarinda Elvira 
Eyles, born at what is now Alcron, 0., July 12, 1815, died 
April 28, 1880, daughter of William and Polly Eyles of 
Litchfield, Conn. About four months prior to his death, 
which occurred at the age of 73 years, he compiled a brief 
account of his branch of the Hinsdale Family, which was 
published at Cleveland, O., in 1883. The following is on 
the title page: "Chronicles of the Hinsdale Family, Com- 
piled by Albert Hinsdale in the seventy-third year of his 
age, to be continued by those who come after him." This 
is a pamphlet of 31 pages. A supplement is added by his 
son. Professor Burke A. Hinsdale of Ann Arbor, Mich, 
To this compilation we are indebted for an account of this 
branch of the family and the author's early experiences 
and hardships in the wilds of Ohio in early days. He was 
a pioneer in the Western Reserve of Ohio, and one of the 
very best types of those who laid the foundations of a 
highly intelligent and thrifty community. 

AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 
1. Childhood. The first account that I have of 
myself is that on the 18th day of July, 1809, in a great rain 
and flood, I appeared upon the stage of action at Torring- 
ton, Conn. It was said that I drew ten pounds at my 
birth. From that time mitil I was six weeks old I have no 
knowledge of myself. History says that at that period of 



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my existence I took the whooping-cough, of which I hked to 
have died. The first of my recollections is going to Grand- 
father Hinsdale's funeral, in Canaan, in Priest GiUett's 
hack. I have since heard one who was there say that 
there were present six of his sons, all large men. I recol- 
lect afterwards going to Granby and seeing Grandfather 
Holcomb with a great cancer on his breast. I remember 
having the measles in the same bed with mother. Then 
I remember, when I got to be a little boy, catching, with 
hook and line, speckled trout, redfins, and shiners, and of 
seeing eels which looked like snakes in the water. I also 
recollect going with Asenath a mile and a half to a school 
all summer and did not read once ; but once I got asleep on 
a bench and hurt myself, I afterwards learned to read, 
and Saturdays in the afternoons we used to be catechised 
and have a kind of meeting which I used to dread. About 
aU that I learned was that "man's chief end is to glorify 
God and enjoy Him forever." That is true yet, and that 
is about all that was of any consequence. Then we used 
to go a mile fiu-ther to meeting (to Torrington Green) to 
hear old Priest Gillett (as he was famiUarly called) preach, 
stuck up in a high pulpit. There never was a fire in that 
house and why people did not freeze to death I can't tell. 
There were two meetings, and at intermissions we used to 
go to the neighboring houses to warm and eat our dinner, 
just as children did at school. 

2. Journey to Ohio. We started from Torrington 
to New Connecticut the 4th of October, 1816, the me- 
morable cold season, when there was said to be frost every 
month in the year, which was attributed to the unusually 
large spots on the sun. Consequently provisions and 
forage were high; oats and corn were one dollar a bushel, 
and other things in proportion, which made expensive 
traveling. Our team was two stout yoke of oxen, which 
never failed. When we started there were folks enough 
there to make a little funeral. I started with a good deal 
of resolution, on foot, and came most of the way, sleeping 
at night between Julius and Sherman in the top of the 
wagon. We crossed the North River at Albany, in a 
horse-boat; we there saw one of the first steam-boats that 
played on American waters start from her dock for New- 



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York. We crossed the Genesee on a boat propelled by a 
rope, and Cayuga lake on an open bridge half a mile long. 
At the same time there were on the bridge several road- 
wagons, one drawn by a team of nine horses; these wagons 
then did the business that is now done by the Erie Canal 
and the New York Central Railroad. We came through 
the village of Buffalo, which had not recovered from the 
effects of the British raid and fire. We were one whole 
day in crossing the Cattaraugus Four Mile Wood. As we 
came up the lake the road ran much of the way on the 
beach. In driving romid one point of rocks the water was 
was so high that it washed away our tar-bucket, which 
hung to the hind axle-tree. We arrived in Braceville, 
TrumbuU County, December 2, having been eight weeks 
on the road, and where we staid over winter. Here were 
people whom father had known in Canaan, and here I 
went to school to Joe D. Humphrey, from Goshen, Conn., 
who afterwards came to Norton. In the winter father and 
Juhus made oiu" necessary furniture, and JuUus went to 
Buffalo in a sleigh to get father's tools and some freight 
that failed to get up the lake in the fall. In April they 
went to Norton, and selected land that had been bought 
of Reuben Rockwell, of Winchester, Conn. They cleared 
about five acres, planted it with corn and potatoes and 
sowed a few oats; but it was so late that these crops did 
not ripen well. They built a house, which was said to be 
the best in town, for the logs were butted off and were 
hewn on the inside. 

3. In the Woods. In June, 1817, Elisha came 
from Hudson to help us move, Julius remaining in Norton 
to have things in good order. We were a week on the 
road. Our house had no chamber-floor, no chimney, nor 
was it chinked. I remember being out in the dark the 
first night, and the light of the fire inside made me think 
of a tin lantern. We did not live very well for the first 
two years, but we always had something to eat. Mother 
used to say that she had the same reason to be thankful 
that the wife of the Shepherd of Salisbury Plain had, for 
she always had salt. She said that she kept us on green 
corn six weeks. We soon had a good cow. Jointed corn 
and milk did pretty well for supper, but I never liked 



186 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

potatoes and milk. For fruit we had mandrakes, pump- 
kins, and crab apples. Before winter our house was 
chinked and daubed; we had a good puncheon floor over- 
head, a stick chimney from the floor up, planed doors and 
glass windows (the glass brought from Connecticut). The 
next two years I did not have to go to school for there was 
none to go to; so I ran in the woods and did pretty well. 
After that I lived with Col. Woodruff, in Charlestown, 
Portage County, and went to school for two terms. By 
this time I had got to be so big that I would do to use, so 
I worked some, caught chipmunks in traps, scared away 
the blackbirds when they pulled the corn, guarded the 
sheep so the wolves would not get them, hunted the cows 
in the woods, led by the tinkling bell. I worked summers 
and went to school winters until I was eighteen years old, 
when I thought that I had learning enough; then I grad- 
uated at Bates's Corners, from a school taught by one — , 
who was the best teacher that I ever had, but he would 
get drunk. I could read, write and cipher. 

Time crowded me onto manhood before I was aware of 
it, having passed through that interesting period of a boy's 
life when his trousers' legs get too short, when he does not 
not know what to do with his hands, nor what to be, has 
to shave without having any beard, and is neither a boy 
nor a man. About this time my father died and I had to 
meet the responsibilities of life; how well God only knows. 

4. Out of the Woods. The family soon broke up; 
Asenath married; the little farm of sixty-seven acres was 
divided; mother had seventeen acres; I had nine; besides 
I had a yoke of steers and a colt. Mother and I lived 
alone in the old house, only George lived with us a part of 
the time. I built a barn on my land, and set an elm tree 
before the house, that is now four feet through. I mar- 
ried in January, 1834, in my twenty-fifth year, and found 
that he who has a good wife has a treasure. Ellen was 
born in October. Soon after this I made a trip to the West, 
and went clear to the Maumee River on horse-back; slept 
one night in the woods, and there heard the wolves howl 
for the last time and saw the last wild deer that I ever saw. 
I forded the Auglaize, the Miami of the Lakes. I liked 
the land and was for buying there, but friends dissuaded 



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me from it. The next September I bought the land on 
which I now live, paying $12 an acre. There were twenty- 
acres of "girdlings" on it, and the shell of a little house, 
which I moved before we went into it; it was drawn by 
thirty yoke of oxen. We moved into the house in No- 
vember (1835), and I was again in the woods. The first 
night after moving the wind blew so that we were afraid 
the trees would fall on the house ; the next day I cut down 
all the trees that were in reach of it. We now had again 
to suffer many of the privations of pioneer life. The land 
was very heavily wooded, and the timber, besides what 
was needed for fences and buildings, was of no value. I 
have hauled saw logs six miles to the mill with an ox team. 
The timber had to be cut and burned up, which made con- 
siderable work; and then it was quite unpleasant to work 
around the stumps and among the roots, but as these 
great machines that cut and bind grain by horse power, 
the mowing machines, sulky plows, patent cultivators, 
etc., were then unknown, we got along very well. In 
twelve years our farm was cleared up, our children had 
increased to four, my brother George, my mother, and our 
first-born had died. We had seen some hard service; and 
Clarinda was clear overcome and broken down by the death 
of Ellen, from which she never entirely recovered. 

5. Conclusion. Forty years ago Clarinda and I made 
a profession of religion and were baptized. Previous 
to that my mind had been in doubt and in an unsettled 
state, but I now found that godliness is profitable unto 
all things, having promise of the life that now is and of the 
life which is to come. We have seen all our grandchildren 
of the proper age obey the Gospel. I have lived three 
years of that period of life in which nothing is promised 
but 'labor and sorrow," and I find that I have not es- 
caped the promise. But I am yet spared many of the 
pains and infirmities incident to old age. My health is 
good, am not baldheaded or very gray. I stand 5 feet 10, 
as erect as ever, and weigh 145 pounds. My weight has 
usually ranged from 150 to 170 pounds. I find that I am 
not as strong or as active as I was fifty years ago. The last 
harvest is the first one that I have not participated in for 
sixty years. I am so deaf that I do not hear ordinary con- 



188 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

versa tion nor public speaking; consequently I am saved 
from hearing much poor preaching and much nonsense. I 
have never had a severe fit of sickness, and have been saved 
from so many accidents that the wonder is that I have not 
been killed. I once fell from a cherry tree and almost 
broke my back; a few years ago I fell off the house and 
almost killed myself; then a colt kicked out my teeth, and 
I had more made that don't ache ; six years ago a horse 
jumped on my leg and broke it, but I had it mended up 
so that it is now a pretty good leg, though not so good as 
it used to be. My rule of life has been not to work on a 
strife, to eat what my appetite craved, if I could get it, and 
to adapt my clothing to the weather. I have never used 
tobacco m any form, and have abstained from spirituous 
liquors for the last fifty years. For the last twenty-five 
years I have been the only survivor of my father's family 
of eight children. I have seen three generations of men, 
and outlived most of my former associates. I have 
seen wonderful changes wrought in the world, both in 
the sciences and in the arts.. Within my recollection 
have come into use the railroad and car, in place of 
the ox-cart and rail causeway; also, the telegraph 
and telephone, great improvements in the steam en- 
gine, which now seems about to move the world, the 
power-loom, and almost all of the implements of agricul- 
tural husbandry but the axe and hoe, and these greatly 
improved. I have seen the daguerreotype in all its forms, 
and the discovery of petroleum, and remember that a few 
years ago the world was lighted every night with tallow 
candles. In short, there have been wonderful changes 
wrought out in almost everything, not only in material 
things but in manners and customs, in modes of doing 
business and in thought. Solomon said there was "nothing 
new under the sun;" verily it seems that I have seen some 
things that had not before been. I have also seen the 
dense forest that had stood for ages in all its solitary gran- 
deur succumb to the little axe in the hands of the sturdy 
pioneer, and give place to the fine farms and beautiful 
landscapes we now see; the log cabin to the palatial man- 
sion; the rude school-house to the spacious church, and 
the imposing structures in which the young are taught. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 189 

Improvements will still go on. Although there are yet 
bad men in the world and many things not as they should 
be, still the world is evidently growing better and will con- 
tinue to grow better. Yet I don't expect to witness many 
more changes. It seems as though I had about survived 
my usefulness, yet the world uses me well, and I have many 
blessmgs. But Clarinda is gone, the girls are gone, and 
although the boys are left it seems lonely. When the 
good Lord sees fit to take me hence, I trust in His goodness, 
"for His mercy endureth forever." 

April 23, 1882. 

I am almost 73 years old. 

SUPPLEMENT TO AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 
Albert Hinsdale lived to complete his seventy-third 
year. After mother's death he continued to live on his 
farm, and generally with the family of his youngest son. 
All the last summer he was very active; he formed plans 
for visiting some old friends in the fall. On the 1st of 
July he wrote me: 

"Last evening your letter came to hand; also, the Stand- 
ard containing your obituary of James Newcomb. Your 
allusion to the white church brings afresh to my mind 
many scenes enacted there. I am the only one that meets 
there now of those who did in the olden time. * * * 
My business is narrowed down to a small compass, but it 
keeps me as busy as ever to keep things ship-shape. I 
have to take things moderately or I get very tired. Every 
step I take reminds me that I am on the verge of eternity, 
and that I belong to the last generation. My former 
associates are all gone and I have but little company. The 
babe is the most I have and the best; but I shall never 
hear him talk. * * * i hope to see all here together 
during vacation, but you are so busy probably I shall be 
disappointed; don't neglect other duties for me." 

Here it may be said that the writer with his family had 
always been in the habit of visiting the Wadsworth home 
each summer. When he received this letter the annual 
visit was in contemplation, and he expected, after a trip 
to New England, to meet his father and brothers once more 



190 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

on the old familiar ground. But it was not to be. The 4th 
of August father made his last trip to Akron, and on the 
evening of that day he wrote the following, supposed to be 
his last letter: 

"Wadsworth, Aug. 4, '82. 
" Dear Burke : I received yours of the 31st ult. yesterday. 

W. B. left here this morning in company with . I took 

them to the Center, and then went ' the overland route' to 
Akron, by the old place. There is nothing about the Eyles 
place that looks as it used to look but the chimney. The 
folks that used to live there are all gone. There is noth- 
ing about our old place in Norton that looks natural but 
the barn that I built in 1833. The elm tree that I set 
four years before is now more than twelve feet around, and 
the branches extend forty feet each way from the trunk. 
I drank from the well, not from the old oaken bucket that 
hung from the pole, but from a pump. I could hardly 
drink, for something seemed to rise in my throat. I started 
for Akron, and turned aroimd to view the 'Eastern ridge 
of Ben Venue,' I cannot describe the thoughts that 
crowded my brain while driving over that five miles of road. 
On that ground had occurred some of the most important 
incidents of my life, some in which I took an active part. Oh 
how changed ! Like Job's servants, I alone am left to tell 
the tale. The woods in which I hunted cattle are gone; 
the three log school-houses where I got my education also. 
It was a rehef to me to get to Bates's Corners, where pre- 
sent things are more familiar. Between Wads worth Cen- 
ter and Akron there are only three men that I knew in the 
olden time. Sixty-seven years ago your mother was born 
in a log cabin where Akron now stands, a city of 20,000 
inhabitants. How everything has changed, myself among 
the rest! I got myself some shoes * * * and got 
back in good order. This is the most pleasant and most 
homelike place that I have seen, and yet it don't seem just 
like home." 

"A. H." 

The Wednesday night following this letter, August 9, 
father was taken with a very severe attack of cholera mor- 
bus. His children nursed him; the medical attendants 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 191 

tried their skill; but in vain. After some hours of un- 
consciousness, he passed away a little after midnight of 
August 14. The next day but one funeral services were 
again held in the old house — the house in which his brother, 
his mother, his two daughters, and his wife had also died. 
Neighbors and friends filled the house and overflowed upon 
the porches and under the maples. C. W. Henry, of Stowe, 
and Alanson Wilcox, of Cleveland, conducted the service. 
This over, the long procession bore away the body to the 
place appointed for all the living; he lies in the Wadsworth 
cemetery beside his devoted wife and affectionate daugh- 
ters. 

Albert Hinsdale's life was a life more than ordi- 
narily full of incident and vicissitude; his a character 
of marked individuality. His frame was never heavy, but 
strong and sinewy; and although he never "worked on 
a strife," as he said, few men accomplished so much labor. 
He was an excellent observer of men and things; he had 
a keen insight into character, a cool temper and careful 
balance in dealing with men, a power of analysis and de- 
scription both quaint and picturesque, and a playful, 
satirical humor. He was a good converser; he expressed 
his view of men and things freely; and his ready and 
keen judgments, put in words peculiarly his own, some- 
times amused, sometimes nettled. He was a farmer both 
by nature and by choice, and while he was in his full 
strength no farm in all the comitry was better kept than 
his. He was one of the first to take up the new agricul- 
tural journals, when they began to appear thirty and 
more years ago; and he was one of the first to exhibit 
taste in farming and in fitting up his home. 

Leavmg Connecticut m 1817, in his eighth year, growing 
up to manhood m the forests of the Western Reserve, as 
well as belonging to a family with whom the struggle for 
existence and comfort was always keen and severe, his 
school education was necessarily limited to the rudiments 
of learning. For a man of such a Ufe, he had more than 
an ordinary taste for literature. But his real education 
came from his intercourse with sky and forest, field and 
fallow, nature and man, and from his own hard battle with 
Ufe. Nature gave him the power of literary creation, but 



192 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

nurture withheld the opportunity. Still the local news- 
paper often bore witness to his quaintness of thought, his 
closeness of observation, and his pictorial description. In 
his sketch of his mother, he speaks of her tendency to dis- 
content and to "borrow trouble;" the mental habit de- 
scended to him. It is not indelicate to say that periods of 
mental elevation, followed by periods of depression, did 
much to derange his business, to disturb the even flow of 
his life, and to bring unhappiness to himself and others. 
All men respected him. He was a good man, just, honest, 
and generous. The laborers who reaped down his fields 
never cried for wages that were withheld. The poor never 
said they were not warmed with the fleece of his sheep. 
He often gave a poor man wages, not so much because he 
needed the labor as because the poor man needed the bread. 
For his time, surroundings, and abilities, he gave his chil- 
dren unusual opportunities for education. Then all his 
life he strove to build them up in integrity, in honor, and 
in manliness — to give moral elevation to their lives. 
His last days were serene and happy. His mental temper 
as he neared his end is shown in his own sketch. I feel that 
I cannot otherwise so fitly close this note as to give those 
words again. 

"Improvements will still go on. Although there are 
bad men in the world and many things not as they should 
be, still the world is evidently growing better and will con- 
tinue to grow better. Yet I don't expect to witness many 
more changes. It seems as though I had about siu^vived 
my usefulness, yet the world uses me well and I have many 
blessings. But Clarinda is gone, the girls are gone, and 
although the boys are left it seems lonely. When the good 
Lord sees fit to take me hence, I trust in His goodness, 
'for His mercy endureth forever.' " 

Of his wife Albert Hinsdale writes as follows: "My 
wife, Clarinda Elvira, was the daughter of WiUiam and 
PoUy Eyles, who came from Litchfield, Conn., to Ohio, in 
1814. She was born July 12, 1815, on the site of what is 
now the city of Akron, a part of which was her father's 
farm. The family moved to Wadsworth in 1820, where 
she always lived, except a short sojourn in Norton. She 
inherited a large, well-developed figure, a strong and vigor- 



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ous constitution, of a nervous type; she had an irritable 
stomach, and was quite subject to headache. She was 
very energetic, industrious, frugal, and orderly in her 
habits, which made her a model housekeeper. She was a 
.good wife, particularly fond of her children, and it almost 
killed her to lose them. She was good to the poor, careful 
of the sick, ever ready to advance the interests of the church 
or any good enterprise. She was possessed of good judg- 
ment, very ready to make up her mind, which was not 
easily turned, and very apt to carry out her purposes. She 
was subject to neuralgia, and for the last few years of her 
life to the sciatic rheumatism in the hip, which was ex- 
tremely painful, and which, together with extreme ner- 
vousness and consequent sleeplessness, wore her out. She 
died from sheer exhaustion April 28, 1880." 

Children : 

918. i. ELLEN ASENATH, born at Norton, O., Oct. 2, 1834; she 

had a strong and vigorous body, constitution, and muid; 
was a particularly lovely chUd, and was beloved by all 
who knew her; she was precocious, particularly in judg- 
ment; when about five years old she had a violent attack 
of fever, which settled in her brain, from which she nar- 
rowly escaped death; she regained her health, was a 
forward scholar, was baptized at eleven years old; in 
the winter before she was thirteen she came home from 
school one day spitting blood, from which she never 
recovered, but died from consumption Dec. 1, 1847, 
at thirteen years of age, beloved by all. 

919. ii. BURKE AARON, (Reverend), born Mar. 31, 1837; mar- 

ried Mary E. Turner. 

920. iii. ROLDON O., born Mar. 27, 1840; married twice. 

921. iv. LOUISA, born at Wadsworth, Apr. 23, 1844; she was of 

a strong and vigorous body and mind, good-looking, 
active and studious, of good judgment, decided in her 
opinions, of amiable disposition, fine taste, quite a 
mechanical genius and artist, industrious, and orderly 
in her habits; she was a good scholar, quite intelligent, 
a great reader of good literature, was a popular and 
successful teacher; she was baptized at ten years of age; 
she died of inflammation of the stomach and nervous 
prostration and exhaustion, after great suffering, Sept. 
8, 1876, aged 33 years. 

922. V. WILBERT B., born May 23 or 25, 1851; married Theo- 

dosia Estelle Stone. 



194 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

41L DEACON LORAIN HINSDALE' (Abel' Jacob » Jacob* 
Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert^), son of Deacon Abel Hins- 
dale and Mary Knapp, his wife, born September 19, 
1801, died February 24, 1881. He married February 28, 
1847, Aurora J. Slater, who was born at New Britain, 
Conn., March 30, 1817, daughter of Pliny Slater and Polly 
Judd, his wife. They lived for a time in Winchester, 
Conn., and afterwards removed to Torrington, Conn. He 
was admitted freeman of Connecticut in 1823, and was a 
member of the Legislature in 1847. He was elected dea- 
con of the church at Torrington in 1850. His wife Aurora 
joined the Torrington Church in 1847. She resided in 
Winchester after her husband's death. They had no chil- 
dren. 

412. DEACON OILMAN HINSDALE' (AbeP Jacob' Jacob* 
Barnabas * Barnabas ^ Robert'), son of Deacon Abel 
Hinsdale and Mary Knapp, his wife, born December 26, 
1803, was living in 1883, and was the last survivor of that 
generation of Hinsdales. Under date of April 17, 1883, 
he writes of his brother Lorain's death, and adds: *'We 
are fast passing away, one after another. If I live till 
next Christmas I shall be eighty years old. Your father 
is gone. Well do I remember when your grandfather 
(Captain Elisha Hinsdale) with his family left for Ohio 
with an ox team. Your father (Albert Hinsdale) was 
then a little boy. It seems but a short time ago. My 
health is very good. I still go to and from Halford every 
day on the express." Deacon Oilman Hinsdale married, 
first, March 23, 1827, Amanda Ward, born February 2, 
1806, died September 7, 1838. He married, second, Sep- 
tember 9, 1840, Anna Judd, widow of Lawrence Richards 
and daughter of John Judd. She died November 25, 1851. 
He married, third, December 5, 1852, Marilla Judd, 
widow of Rollin Dickinson and daughter of John Judd. 
She died June 8, 1859. He married, fourth, July 25, 
1860, Sally Maria Smith, widow of Grove W. Loomis 
and daughter of William Smith. Deacon Oilman Hins- 
dale joined the church at New Britain, December 6, 1846, 
and lived there. 
Children : 



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By his first wife, Amanda Ward. 

923. i. MARY LOUISA, bom Jan. 30, 1830; married Isaac N. 

Wells. 

924. ii. LUTHER G., born Aug. 13, 1832; married, first, Julia 

Wooden, and was divorced; manied, second, Susan 
Kinney. 

925. iii. EDWARD P., bom Aug. 7, 1836; married. 

By his second wife, Anna Jtjdd. 

926. iv. VENELIA A., bom July 3, 1843; died Sept. 1, 1844. 

927. V. CHARLES A., bom Oct. 31, 1847. 

928. VI. ANNA JUDD, bom Oct. 31, 1849; died Sept. 15, 1863. 

413. REVEREND ABEL KNAPP HINSDALE' (Abel' Jacob^ 
Jacob* Barnabas' Barnabas^ Robert^), son of Deacon 
Abel Hinsdale and Mary Knapp, his wife, born at Tor- 
rington, Conn., October 6, 1807, died at Mosul, Mesopo- 
tomia, December 26, 1842. He united with the church at 
Torrington in 1828; was graduated at Yale College in 1833, 
and at Auburn Theological Seminary in 1838. He was 
ordained a minister of the gospel and set apart as a mis- 
sionary by i_the American Board to the Independent Nes- 
torians, January 18, 1840. While soliciting funds for the 
American Board he married Sarah Clark, of Derry, 
N. H. They had two children; the first died young; the 
second lived about fifteen months. After his death his 
widow was engaged in instructing the children of the mis- 
sionaries at Constantinople about ten years, after which 
she returned to her native country, but lived only about 
two years after her return. 

415. STEPHEN HINSDALE' (Whitmg« Jacob^ Jacob* Barnabas' 

Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Whiting Hinsdale, married, 
and had one son. He is deceased. 

ChUd: 

929. i. CHARLES, deceased; left a wife and one daughter, living at 

Hudson, Columbia Co., N. Y.; he was Sheriff of Columbia 
Co., at the time of his death. 

416. CHARLES HINSDALE' (Whiting" Jacob' Jacob* Barnabas' 

Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Whiting Hinsdale, married, 
and had four sons. 

Children: 

930. i. WILLIAM W, married; died Nov. 8, 1896; his widow sur- 



196 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

vives him; had two sons, both married; the elder, Jacob, 
has two sons and a daughter; the other has a daughter; 
the elder is living in Duchess Co., N. Y. 

931. ii. ROBERT H., died July 2, 1893; left a widow; no children. 

932. iii. CHARLES A., died Nov. 22, 1896; left a widow and a 

daughter who married a Mr. Weaver, who died, and 
has one son. 

933. iv. MARTIN J., Uving in 1898; has a wife and two sons both 

married; one has four sons and two daughters; the 
other has one daughter; this family is living at Gallatin, 
Columbia Co., N. Y. 

418. MORRIS HINSDALE^ (Eliziir^ Jacob' Jacob ^ Barnabas ^ 

Barnabas^ Robert^), son of Captain Elizur Hinsdale 
and his first wife, Olive Doud, born at Goshen, Conn., 
May 19, 1805, died at Leroy, N. Y., February 2, 1849, 
aged forty-three. He married at Lyme, Conn., October 
21, 1834, Martha Wade, who was born June 22, 1807. 

Children : 

934. i. GEORGE ARTHUR, born May 22, 1836; married Ellen 

Cady. 

935. ii. OLIVEDOWD, bom July21, 1840; married July 7, 1869, 

George Barton. 

936. iu. IRWIN S., born Oct. 17, 1843; married Dec. 14, 1871, 

Alice Grant; died October 8, 1904. 

937. iv. ALMIRA, bom May 10, 1846; married September, 1867, 

Morris H. Sage, son of Hezekiah Sage and Charlotte M. 
Hinsdale, his wife. 

419. MARY ELIZABETH HINSDALE ^ (EHzur « Jacob ^ Jacob* 

Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter of Captain Elizur 
Hinsdale and his first wife, Olive Doud, born at Win- 
chester, Conn., March 10, 1807, died March 15, 1842, 
aged thirty-five. She married at Clarkson, N. Y., June 
25, 1827, Augustus Porter Haskell, who was born 
June 14, 1800. 

420. OLIVE MARANA HINSDALE ' (Elizur « Jacob ' Jacob * 

Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert*), daughter of Captain Ehzur 
Hinsdale and his first wife, Olive Doud, born at Winches- 
ter, Conn., July 6, 1812, died at Danvers, 111., February 1, 
1884. She was married at Leroy, N. Y., by Rev. Eben- 
ezer Mead, October 2, 1838, to Israel Davenport Janes, 
who was born March 8, 1812. 




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HINSDALE GENEALOGY 197 

421. CHARLOTTE MARIA HINSDALE^ (Elizur« Jacob ^ Ja- 

cob* Barnabas^ Barnabas ^ Robert'), daughter of Cap- 
tain Elizur Hinsdale and his first wife, Olive Doud, 
born at Winchester, Conn., August 30, 1814, died at Dan- 
vers. III., June 4, 1887. She married, first, at Leroy, 
N. Y., May 7, 1835, Hezekiah Sage, who was born in 
1810, and died at Leroy, July 18, 1840, aged thirty, son 
of Moses Sage of Middletown, Conn., and Hannah John- 
son, his wife, who later became the third wife of Captain 
Elizur Hinsdale. Charlotte Maria Hinsdale married, sec- 
ond, at Stout's Grove, 111., John Ross. 

422. HARRIET HULL HINSDALE^ (Elizur « Jacob' Jacob* 

Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert 0, daughter of Captain 
Elizur Hinsdale and his second wife, Betsey M. Hull, 
born at Winchester, Conn., November 15, 1818, was mar- 
ried at Leroy, N. Y., by Rev. Ebenezer Mead, October 
22, 1838, to Hiram W. Haskell of Leroy, who was born 
in 1813. 

Child: 

938. 1. ALICE, married Charies Root, a merchant in Detroit, 
Mich.; had two sons; they resided in Detroit in 1890. 

426. ANNA JOHNSON HINSDALE' (Ehzur« Jacob » Jacob* 

Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert 0, daughter of Captain 
EHzur Hinsdale and his third wife, Hannah Johnson, 
born at Leroy, N. Y., August 21, 1830, died at Evan- 
ston, 111., December 13, 1898. She married at Iowa City, 
la., September 6, 1856, Edward Fowler Fish, who was 
born September 23, 1828. 

427. HONORABLE ELIZUR BRACE HINSDALE ^ (EKzur« 

Jacob' Jacob* Barnabas' Barnabas^ Robert 0, son of 
Captain Eliziu- Hinsdale and his third wife, Hannah 
Johnson, born at Leroy, Genesee County, N. Y., Decem- 
ber 4, 1831. 

He was admitted to the bar at Buffalo, N. Y., in 1856, 
and removed to New York City in 1861, where he has 
practiced his profession since that date. He was for nine 
years a member of the Committee on Political Reform of 
the Union League Club, and when Whitelaw Reid was 



198 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

appointed Minister to France, he became chairman of that 
Committee. He was elected for the ten year term to the 
bench of the Court of Special Sessions, and is now President 
of that court. 

Judge Hinsdale, while engaged in an active practice of 
his profession in the city of New York, found time to take 
an active part in many public matters of great importance. 
The system of registration of land transfer for that city 
had broken down on account of the magnitude of the trans- 
actions. He took a leading part in establishing the present 
excellent system, that has worked well for about fifteen 
years, and can never be clogged, no matter how large the 
city may grow. 

The system of new parks in the city was fiercely attacked 
by the then mayor, backed by a jDOwerful body of citi- 
zens. Mr. Hinsdale espoused the cause of the parks, and 
by his legal arguments and labors in that cause, contrib- 
uted more to securing the parks than did any other one 
person. These parks are now the pride of all the citizens 
of the city. 

While on the bench, Judge Hinsdale tried and convicted 
the notorious anarchist, Herr Most, for an article pub- 
lished in his paper, that he claimed was only a political 
article. Most appealed to the highest court of the state, 
where the decision was unanimously affirmed. Thus for 
the first time was it settled in this country that imprison- 
ment is the penalty for anarchist speaking and writing. 

428. JANE CRAWFORD HINSDALE' (Elizur • Jacob » Ja- 

cob* Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert^), daughter of Cap- 
tain Elizur Hinsdale and his third wife, Hannah John- 
son, born at Leroy, N. Y., September 25, 1833, married 
there January 29, 1854, Jared Chittenden, who was born 
in 1828. 

429. WILLIAM RUSSELL HINSDALE' (Elizur « Jacob ^ Ja- 

cob^ Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert^), son of Captain Elizur 
Hinsdale and his third wife, Hannah Johnson, born 
at Leroy, N. Y., January 23, 1836, married first at De- 
troit, Mich., April 20, 1864, Frances A. Adams, who was 
born in 1842. He married, second, at Dover, Del., Au- 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 199 

gust 22, 1891, Maude Millen. He is President and Gen- 
eral Manager of the American Tungsten Mining and Mill- 
ing Company, operating the Hubbard Mines at Trumbull, 
Conn., and with general offices at Bridgeport, Conn. His 
business is mining and industrial securities, at 20 Broad 
Street, New York City. He resides at Orange, N. J. 

432. WOLCOTT HINSDALE^ (Ezra° Ezra^ Jacob ^ Barna- 
bas^ Barnabas^ Robert 0, son of Ezra Hinsdale and his 
first wife, Tryphenia Frisbie, born at Harwinton, Conn., 
July 10, 1795, married Hannah Jones of Harwinton, 
where they lived and died. 

Children : 

939. i. CHARLES, a druggist in Litchfield, Conn.; living in 1897. 

940. ii. SARAH, married a Mr. McNeil; lived in Litchfield; died 

several years ago. 

445. EMILY HINSDALE' (Roswell" Ezra' Jacob ^ Barnabas' 
Barnabas' Robert 0; daughter of Roswell Hinsdale and 
Sybel Winchell, his wife, born at Harwinton, Conn., May 
28, 1810; died there. She married Alvah Scoville. 

Child: 

941. i. JOHN, living in 1897. 

457. CHARLES CHAUNCEY HINSDALE' (Erastus« Ezra' 
Jacob* Barnabas' Barnabas' Robert*), son of Erastus 
Hmsdale and Lois Carr, his wife, born at Kinderhook, 
N. Y., May 4, 1813; died at Cleveland, 0., February 25, 
1891. He married, first, September 22, 1835, Catherine 
H. RuGER, who died. He married, second, September 
22, 1847, at Bennington, Vt., Maria A. Weeks, who 
died May 20, 1861. 

Children : 

By his first wife, Catherine H. Rtjger. 

942. i. JOSEPHINE, bom June 20, 1839; married at Cleveland, O., 

June 7, 1887, John Burlison; no children. 

943. ii. EUGENE A., bom Oct. 27, 1841. 

944. iii. WILLIMI E., bom Sept. 25, 1844; died Apr. 11, 1891; 

no children. 

945. iv. DANIEL C, bom Mar. 10, 1846; married Jennie Holmes. 

By his second wife, Maria E. Weeks. 

946. V. CHARLES WEEKS, bom Feb. 4, 1849; married twice. 



200 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

947. vi. GEORGE DEWEY, bom Dec. 8, 1850; married Jennie 

E. Johnson. 

948. vii. DEWEY GEORGE, bom June 16, 1856; married Clara 

Milton. 

458. EZRA M. HINSDALE' (Erastus" Ezra» Jacob^ Barnabas^" 
Barnabas' Robert'), son of Erastus Hinsdale and Lois 
Carr, his wife, born at Kinderhook, Columbia County, 
N. Y., May 14, 1816, died at Troy, N. Y., April 11, 1879. 
He married February 10, 1841, Esther Valentine. 

Children : 

949. i. MATILDA, born Oct. 1, 1843. 

950. ii. ADDIE T., bom Sept. 15, 1845. 

951. iii. MADISON W., bom Oct. 28, 1849; died Oct. 15, 1897. 

462. HENRY JOSEPH HOPKINS' (Marilla Hinsdale" Ezra-* 

Jacob* Barnabas' Barnabas' Robert'), son of Joseph 
Hopkins and Marilla Hinsdale, his wife, born in 1810. 
died at Wolcottville, now Torruigton, Conn., February 2, 
1875, aged 64. He married Sarah Webster of Harwin- 
ton, Conn. 

Children : 

952. i. SARAH, died at 10 years of age. 

953. ii. MARY, married Se3Tnour R. Fowlei of Vineland, N. J. 

954. iii. AGNES, died at 3 years of age. 

463. ANDREW BENNETT HOPKINS' (Marilla Hinsdale" Ezra^ 

Jacob* Barnabas' Barnabas^ Robert'), son of Joseph 
Hopkins and Marilla Hinsdale, his wife, born June, 1812, 
died at New Haven, Conn., May, 1841, aged 29, He mar- 
ried Amy Dowd. 

Children : 

955. i. ELLEN. 

956. ii. EMILY. 

464. SARAH MARIA HOPKINS' (Marilla Hinsdale' Ezra^ 

Jacob* Barnabas' Barnabas^ Robert'), daughter of 
Joseph Hopkins and Marilla Hinsdale, his wife, born 
April 2, 1814, died January 1, 1889, aged 74. She mar- 
ried Justus Webster of Burlington. 

Children : 

957. i. GEORGE. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 201 

958. ii. JAMES, resides at Burlington. 

959. iii. JENNIE, married George W. Hait of Unionville, Conn.; 

resides at Burlington. 

960. iv. EMILY, married Frank Butler; resides at Burlington. 

465. EMILY HOPKINS^ (Marilla Hinsdale" Ezra'^ Jacob* 
Barnabas' Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter of Joseph 
Hopkins and Marilla Hinsdale, his wife, born June 4, 
1817; married August 6, 1838, John W. Hotchkiss of 
Burlington, who died at Buffalo, N. Y., April, 1881, and 
was buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery. She has spent 
most of her life since marriage in Buffalo, and resided 
there at 38 Linwood Avenue, in 1897. She very kindly 
contributed many facts about her branch of the family, 
which the compilers of this book wish to acknowledge 
with thanks, Mrs. Hotchkiss was the last of her gener- 
ation. 

467. ISAAC ORSANUS HINSDALE ' (Isaac" Ezra** Jacob* Bar- 
nabas' Barnabas^ Robert^), son of Isaac Hinsdale and 
Emilia Frisbie, his wife, born at or near Bristol, Conn., 
April 27, 1815, died January 1 or 4, 1874. He married, 
January 14, 1838, Luanna B. Sperry, who died October 
28, 1846 or 1847. 

Children : 

961. i. HENRIETTA SPERRY, bom Dec. 3, 1839; married Seth 

William Warren. 

962. ii. ORSANUS ISAAC, born June 23, 1841; died Mar. 16, 1849. 

963. iii. GEORGE W., born Nov. 1, 1842; died Dec. 19, 1843. 

964. iv. AUGUSTUS MASON, (Sergeant), born Mar. 11, 1844; 

married Martissa L. Kinley. 

965. V. CHARLES MASON, bom July 6, 1847; married Eva 

Vaughan. 

469. SAMUEL ROBBINS BROWN' (Phebe Hinsdale" George = 
Jacob* Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert'), son of Timothy 
Brown and Phebe Hinsdale, his wife, born at East Windsor, 
Conn., June 16, 1810; married at E. Windsor, October 10, 
1839, Elizabeth Bartlett, who was born July 16, 1813, 
daughter of Reverend Shubael Bartlett, Congregational 
Minister at E. Windsor. 

Samuel Robbins Brown died at Monson, Mass., June 19, 
1880, and is buried there beside his father and mother, his 



202 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

wife and son Robert. He entered Amherst College in 1828, 
and Yale in 1832. In 1835 he was a student at the Theo- 
logical Seminary at Columbia, S. C. October 17, 1739, 
seven days after his marriage, he and his wife embarked 
for China as missionaries. In 1847 he returned to America 
on account of his wife's health, and in 1848 became princi- 
pal of the Academy in Rome, New York, which position he 
resigned March 31, 1851. In the spring of 1851 he accepted 
the pastorate of the Dutch Reformed Church in Owasco 
Outlet, near Aubm'n, N. Y., where he worked eight years 
as farmer, teacher and preacher. On May 7, 1859, being 
then fifty years of age, he, with his wife and two daughters, 
embarked from New York for Japan, as missionaries. 
Returned to America in May, 1867, and then went to Japan 
again in August, 1869. In 1879 he retiu-ned to America 
for the last time, and died in June of the following year. He 
was engaged for twenty years in learning the Japanese 
language and translating the New Testament into that 
tongue; a splendid monument of great labor, which he 
lived to see accomplished. Few, if any, have done so 
much for the uplifting of the Japanese people — a mis- 
sionary of the very best type, beloved by all who knew him. 
An extended account of him is given in "A Maker of the 
New Orient," by William Eliot Griffis. 
Samuel Robbins Brown and wife Elizabeth had two 
daughters, one of whom, the eldest, is Mrs. Lowder, who 
Uves in Yokohama, Japan. They also had a son, Robert, 
who died and was buried at Monson, Mass. 

471. HANNAH WHITING BROWN ^ (Phebe Hinsdale* George ^ 
Jacob* Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert'), daughter of Timothy 
Brown and Phebe Hinsdale, his wife, born at Ellington, 
Conn., July 18, 1816; married, first, in 1833, John Smith 
Lord, and after his death, married in 1847 or 1848, Elijah 
Smith. 

Children : 

By her first husband, John Smith Lord. 
966. i. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, died in 1873, who had the 
following children : 

1. William Sinclair, Evanston, 111. 

2. Robert, Springfield, 111. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 203 

3. Frederick. 

4. Edith, Riverdale, 111., who married Thomas Blaney. 

967. ii. JOHN SMITH, now of Springfield, lU. 

968. iii. SAMUEL ROBBINS BROWN, died in 1887, leaving a 

widow and two children whose names are John Elliot 
Lord and Mrs. EUzabeth S. Austin (Mrs. Charles Austin) . 
Their address is Oak Park, lU. 

By her second husband, Elijah Smith, 

969. iv. MARY JOSEPHINE, bom Aug. 27, 1849. 

970. V. HENRY PHELPS, born July 4, 1851; married; has one 

daughter, Yvonne N. Hinsdale, born May 15, 1900. 
971. vi. LURA HINSDALE, bom Aug. 6, 1855; unmarried; living 
in Alameda, Cal. 

972. vii. ELIJAH, Jr., died in infancy. 

472. FANNY POMEROY HINSDALE^ (Theodore" Theodore = 
John^ Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter of Theodore 
Hinsdale and Fanny Pomeroy, his wife, married, July 15, 
1846, David Ely Bartlett of Hartford, Conn,, born Sep- 
tember 29, 1805. He was graduated at Yale College in 
1828. They lived in Hartford. 

Children : 

973. i. FANNY, bom June 9, 1847, at New York; died Mar., 1848. 

974. ii. THEODORE HINSDALE, born Jan. 7, 1849, at New York; 

died young. 

975. iii. MARY LEEDS, born Sept. 1850; baptized Nov. 10, 1850. 

976. iv. CHARLES L., born Nov. 13, 1853; married — Krouse; 

they Uve in Chicago, HI.; he was graduated at Yale 
College in 1876. 

977. V. MARGARET, born 1855. 

978. vi. LOUISE, bom 1860. 

475. THEODORE HINSDALE ' (Josiah Bissell" Theodore-* John* 
Barnabas' Barnabas^ Robert*), son of Josiah Bissell Hins- 
dale and Temperance Pitkin, his wife, born at Colebrook, 
Conn., December 27, 1800, died Nov. 27, 1841. He mar- 
ried, April 26, 1826, Jerusha Rockwell, daughter of 
Solomon Rockwell and Sarah McEwen, his wife. She mar- 
ried, second, December 10, 1843, as his second wife, John 
Boyd, of West Winsted, Conn., born at Winsted, March 
17, 1799, son of James Boyd and Mary Monro, his wife. 
He died December 1, 1881 at Winsted. He compiled the 
Annals of Winchester, a work of 640 pages. Theodore 
Hinsdale was graduated at Yale College in 1821, read law 



204 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

for a brief period with Seth P. Staples, Esq., of New Haven, 
and afterwards studied at Andover for one or two years, and 
in 1827 went into a manufacturing business with his father- 
in-law, in the firm name of Rockwell & Hinsdale. After 
the death of Mr. Rockwell in 1837, he was associated in the 
same business (scj^themaking) with Elliot Beardsley, under 
the firm name of Hinsdale & Beardsley, until his death. 
As a business man he manifested great energy and execu- 
tive ability; while as a citizen he was prominent and in_ 
fiuential in advocating every good cause, and leading 
others by his activity and ardor. Gifted with a com- 
mandmg person, a fascinating manner, and a native ora- 
tory, he became widely known and admired, and was sought 
as presiding officer or prominent speaker in the largest 
public gatherings in the County and State. In the merid- 
ian of his manhood, with a career of distinguished useful- 
ness and honor in prospect, he was struck down by ty- 
phoid fever, and died November 27, 1841, aged 40. 

Children : 

979. i. SARAH McEWEN, born Apr. 2, 1827; died Aug. 17, 1833. 

980. ii. MARY PITKIN, born Dec. 11, 1828. 

981. iii. SOLOMON ROCKWELL, born Aug. 25, 1835; married 

Julia Merritt Jackson. 



476. ANN HINSDALE ' (Josiah BisseU« Theodore' John^ Bar- 

nabas^ Barnabas' Robert^), daughter of Josiah Bissell Hins- 
dale and Temperance Pitkin, his wife, born at Winchester, 
Conn., October 16, 1802, died at Rochester, N. Y., in 1890. 
She married, September 12, 1825, Frederick Whittlesey 
of Rochester, N. Y., a lawyer, who died in 1857, whose 
mother was Martha Pomeroy, daughter of Quartus Pome- 
roy, son of General Seth Pomeroy. She was a pupil in 
Troy Seminary m 1824. 

477. MARY PITKIN HINSDALE' (Josiah Bissell" Theodore' 

John* Barnabas' Barnabas^ Robert'), daughter of Josiah 
BisseU Hinsdale and Temperance Pitkin, his wife, born 
January 10, 1805, died at Rochester, N. Y., in 1881. She 
attended Troy Seminary from 1823 to 1825. She married, 
September 21, 1829, Selah Matthews of Rochester, 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 205 

N. Y., born February 17, 1807, died in Rochester, 1861. 
He was a lawyer of Rochester, and city recorder. 

Child: 

982. i. SARAH ANN, born Aug. 25, 1833; married Joseph Harris. 

480. SARAH WETMORE HINSDALE ^John' Theodore' John« 

Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter of John Hinsdale 
and his first wife, Ehzabeth Wetmore, born at Middle- 
town, Conn., June 1, 1805, married. May 10, 1830, Elijah 
H. Kimball, of Flatlands, L. I., N. Y. She died at Wash- 
ington, D. C, in 1874. 

Children : 

983. i. ELIZABETH C, married, Dec. 4, 1850, a Mr. Hobson. 

984. ii. MARY, married Colonel H. Berdan; had three children. 

985. iii. LUCY, born July 22, 1836 ; married Vice-President 

Levi Parsons Morton. (No. 1549). 

986. iv. CAROLINE, married Colonel Lay. 

987. V. FANNIE. 

481. ELIZABETH C. HINSDALE ' (John" Theodore' John* Bar- 

nabas^ Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter of John Hinsdale and 
his first wife, Ehzabeth Wetmore, born at Middletown, 
Conn., June 17, 1807, died August 31, 1828. She married, 
September 3, 1827, Elijah H. Kimball. They Hved in 
Waterford, N. Y. She was a pupil in Troy Seminary in 
1824. 

482. JOHN THEODORE HINSDALE ' (John' Theodore' John* 

Barnabas^ Barnabas'' Robert^, son of John Hinsdale and 
his second wife, Harriet Johnston, born at Middletown, 
Conn., January 10, 1812, married, November 30, 1836, 
Susan Maria Loring, who was born December 10, 1813, 
and died of paralysis September 23, 1890. She was daugh- 
ter of David and Maria Loring of Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Children : 

988. i. HARRIETTE MARIA, born Jan. 3, 1838. 

989. ii. LORING, bom Apr. 19, 1840; married Clara Holland. 

483. HARRIET ANN HINSDALE^ (John' Theodore' John* 

Barnabas' Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter of John Hinsdale 
and his second wife, Harriet Johnston, born at Middletown, 
Conn., August 16, 1813, married there, August 28, 1833, 



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William Olcott (or Alcott), of Hanover, N. H., born at 
Hanover in 1806, a brother of Doctor Bronson Alcott, 
father of Louisa M. Alcott, the noted writer. He was 
also the brother of Mrs. Rufus Choate. He was a merchant 
and died at Shreveport, La., April 1, 1850. She died at 
Chicago, 111., May 5, 1882. She was an Episcopalian; 
was a pupil in Troy Seminary from 1827 to 1829. 

Children : 

990 i. MILLS, bom 1836 at Middletown ; died at Santa Fe, N. M., 
Nov. 7, 1866; unmarried. 

991. ii. CAROLINE H., born Feb. 28, 1839; married James Barrett 

Vaughan. 

992. iii. THEODORE, died in infancy. 

993. iv. HARRISON BELL, died in infancy. 

994. v. WILLIAM, bom Nov. 12, 1849 ; immarried in 1898 ; living 

in Chicago, HI. 

485. SMIUEL JOHNSTON HINSDALE' (John" Theodore^ 

John^ Barnabas' Barnabas^ Robert^, son of John Hinsdale 
and his second wife, Harriet Johnston, born at Middletown, 
Conn., March 26, 1817, died at Fayetteville, N. C, June 14, 
1894. He married, first, at Fayetteville, September 2, 
1841, Elizabeth Christophers Wetmore, born at New- 
bern, N. C, March 6, 1815, died at Fayetteville, September 
12, 1885, daughter of Ichabod Wetmore and Elizabeth 
Badge, his wife. He married, second, September 28, 1886, 

Mary , widow of James B. Broadfoot, of Fayetteville. 

He was a druggist and chemist, and resided at Fayette- 
ville. He was a Democrat, and an Episcopalian. He was 
senior warden in the church twenty-four years. 

Children : 

By his first wife, Elizabeth Christophers Wetmore. 

995. i. JOHN WETMORE, (Colonel), born Feb. 4, 1843 ; married 

Ellen Devereux. 

996. ii. FRANCES BROADFOOT, bom Nov. 8, 1845 ; married 

Major James Cameron MacRae. 

By his second wife, Mary (Broadfoot) . 

997. iii. THEODORE, born Mar. 30, 1892. 

486. HONORABLE THEODORE HINSDALE' (John' Theo- 

dore' John* Barnabas^ Barnabas'* Robert^, son of John Hins- 
dale and his second wife, Harriet Johnston, born at Middle - 
town, Conn., February 3, 1819, died at Marlboro, N. Y., 



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August 19, 1880. He married at Hanover, N. H., October 
30, 1850, Grace Webster Haddock, who was born at 
Hanover May 17, 1832, and died August 30, 1902, daughter 
of Reverend Charles Brickett Haddock of Dartmouth Col- 
lege and Susan Saunders Lang, his wife. The mother of 
Professor Haddock was Abigail Webster, sister of the fa- 
mous Daniel Webster. Theodore Hinsdale was a lawyer by 
profession and practiced in New York City for over forty 
years, a man universally respected and admired. He re- 
sided in Brooklyn, N. Y., from 1850 till his death. He 
was a republican in politics. He was graduated from 
Wesleyan University in 1836; studied law in New York 
City from 1837 to 1840; was a member of Brooklyn Com- 
mon Council, 1866 and 1867; and a member of the New 
York Legislature in 1868 and 1869. Mr. and Mrs. Hins- 
dale were Congregationahsts. She was a poet and authoress. 
Some of her earliest productions appeared in Scribner's 
Magazine when it was known as "Hours at Home." For 
more than twenty years she was a contributor, largely to 
religious journals, such at the Boston Congregationalist, 
the Independent, the Sunday School Times and the Chris- 
tian Union. These contributions have generally been in 
the form of verse ; but as a writer of short sketches, ex- 
pounding some Bible truth, with added words of advice or 
comfort, she was very successful. She was also the author 
of two books," Coming to the King" and "Thinking Aloud," 
published by Randolph & Co., New York, and afterwards 
published by Straham, London. It is as a contributor to 
literature of a devotional character that she is best known. 
Among her poems of a devotional character are "The 
Madonna and Child," written in 1867; also "My Heavenly 
Friend," and "Christ Knocking at the Door." These all 
appear in "The Library of Rehgious Poetry," edited by 
Philip Schaff and Arthur Oilman, pubUshed by Dodd, 
Mead & Co., New "^ork, in 1881. Many of her hynms have 
been embodied in various collections, such as the "Presby- 
terian Hymnal." Dr. Philip Schaff, one of the ablest 
critics of religious literature, has given place in his col- 
lection, "Christ in Song," to four of her poems. Some of 
them also appear in "Songs for the Sanctuary," edited by 
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she traveled abroad, and gathered much food for thought 
and new inspirations. Her poem, " The Faithful Guard," 
was sung to the tune of "America" by fifteen hundred 
voices at the laying of the corner-stone of the 23rd Regi- 
ment Armory in 1872, She had many of the Websterian 
characteristics, was a charming conversationalist, and her 
sentences often had the force and wit of epigrams. 

From The National Cyclopedia of American Biography. 
James T. White & Company, Vol. IX., p. 96: 

Grace Webster (Haddock) Hinsdale, author, was born at 
Hanover, N. H., May 17, 1832, daughter of Charles Brickett 
and Susan Samiders (Lang) Haddock. Her mother was 
the daughter of Richard Lang, of Hanover, N. H,, and her 
maternal great-grandfather was Col. Ebenezer Webster, 
also of New Hampshire, father of Daniel Webster, and 
himself a distinguished soldier and jvu"ist. She early 
developed the religious temperament that prompted her 
most successful literary work. At the age of eighteen she 
was married to Theodore Hinsdale, a lawyer, of New 
York City, and made her home in Brooklyn. When first 
she began to write, her productions took the form of con- 
tributions to "Hours at Home," a magazine which after- 
wards became "Scribner's Magazine," and she has also 
contributed verse and prose articles to a large number of 
periodicals, chiefly religious, including the Boston "Con- 
gregationalist," "Independent," "Sunday School Times", 
and "Christian Union." In 1865 she published two books, 
"Coming to the King: a Book of Daily Devotions for Chil- 
dren," and "Thinking Aloud," both of which were repub- 
lished by an Enghsh firm. Selections from her hymns, 
published first in Charles S. Robinson's and Dr. Storrs' 
"Songs for the Sanctuary," have been copied in other 
hymn books, and several of her poems are in the collection 
"Christ in Song," compiled by Dr. Phihp Schaff, one of 
the ablest critics of religious literature, and many impor- 
tant recent works on hymnody contain notices of her work. 
The Brooklyn "Eagle" describes her hymns as "character- 
ized by a depth of earnestness, a truly rehgious motive dis- 
tinguishing them from the light literature of hymnody 
born within the last few years." In 1872 Mrs. Hinsdale 



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composed a poem, "The Faithful Guard," to be sung at 
the laymg of the corner-stone of the 23rd New York regi- 
ment armory. Her poem on Raphael's Madonna de San 
Sisto, in the Royal Gallery of Dresden, has been fre- 
quently copied. It was written in Europe in 1867. Mrs. 
Hinsdale has read in public these verses, and also her poem 
entitled, "The Old Cathedral." She has three children: 
a son, Guy Hinsdale, M. D., of Philadelphia; a daughter, 
the wife of George A. Lintner, of Minneapolis, Minn., and 
Frank W. Hinsdale. 

Children, born in Brooklyn, N. Y. : 

998. i. CHARLES HADDOCK, born Oct. 15, 1851; died Mar. 5, 

1857. 

999. ii. GRACE WEBSTER, born July 24, 1854; died Mar. 23, 

1857. 

1000. iii. THEODORE SWAN, born July 29, 1856; died Jan. 9, 

1857. 

1001. iv. GUY, (Doctor), bom Oct. 26, 1858; married Mary 

Porteous Graham. 

1002. V. THEODORA, born June 24, 1860; died at Marlboro, 

N. Y., 1885. 

1003. \a. FRANK WEBSTER, bom Dec. 13, 1862; married Lydia 

Warren. 

1004. vii. GRACE WEBSTER, born June 13, 1874; married at 

Brooklyn, N. Y., July 12, 1895, George Albert Lintner, 
born at Albany, N. Y., a civil engineer; resided at Al- 
bany, N. Y., and Minneapolis, Minn.; he is an Episco- 
palian; she is a Congregationalist; no children; her 
present address is 21 Badeau Ave., Summit, N. J. 

490. MIRA HINSDALE ^ (William^ Theodore^ John^ Barnabas' 
Barnabas^ Robert*), daughter of Deacon William Hins- 
dale and his first wife, Judith Wing, born November 2, 
1815, married first, at Hinsdale, Mass., June 6, 1838, 
John Spencer of Hinsdale. She married, second, at 
Hinsdale, February 9, 1853, Francis Brewer of Spring- 
field, Mass. She died at Leroy, N. Y., August 1, 1905. 

Child: 

By her first husband, John Spencer. 

1005. i. CHARLES, died Apr. 5, 1904. 

493. ELIZABETH WING HINSDALE^ (William* Theodore'^ 
John* Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter of Deacon 



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William Hinsdale and his first wife, Judith Wing, born 
Aug. 3, 1824, died at Pittsfield, Mass., Nov. 10,1904. 
She married at Hinsdale, Mass., Nov. 9, 1854, Charles 
Hall of Leroy, N. Y. She had three children of 
whom one son and one daughter are Hving. 

495. JAMES HENRY HINSDALE ' (WiUiam- Theodore^ John* 
Barnabas' Barnabas ^ Robert^), son of Deacon William 
Hmsdale and his first wife, Judith Wing, born at Hinsdale, 
Mass., December 17, 1833, married at Ware, Mass., June 
23, 1870, Mary Livingston Gilbert. He resided in 
Pittsfield, Mass. 

Children : 

1006. i. GEORGE HOOKER, bom Sept. 20, 1871; died Feb. 21, 

1873. 

1007. ii. FRANK GILBERT, bom Feb. 11, 1874; married Mar- 

tha Means. 

1008. ill. ELIZABETH WING, bora June 27, 1876. 

1009. iv. MARY LIVINGSTON, bom Mar. 15, 1880. 

510. ELIJAH HINSDALE BURRITT ^ (EHzabeth Hmsdale" 

Elijah^ John* Barnabas' Barnabas^ Robert'), son of Elihu 
Burritt and EHzabeth Hinsdale, his wife, born April 20, 
1794, died in Texas, January 3, 1838. He married, October 
28, 1826, Ann Williams Watson, of Milledgeville, Ga. 
He learned the trade of a blacksmith; graduated at Wil- 
liams College; had a taste for mathematics, and gave his 
attention to that science in order to become a surveyor. 
He established a boarding school at New Britain, Coim.; 
was author of an astronomical work used in schools, "Geo- 
graphy of the Heavens," and several other works. He 
headed a small colony that unfortmiately went to Texas 
in 1837; edited a weekly paper in Georgia for some years; 
was large physically, commanding and dignified in appear- 
ance and address; a man of rare talent and worth, but 
somewhat erratic. He had five children. 

511. BETSEY HINSDALE BURRITT^ (Elizabeth Hmsdale" 

Elijah^ John* Barnabas' Barnabas^ Robert'), daughter of 
Elihu Burritt and Elizabeth Hinsdale, his wife, born July 
22, 1796, died in 1872. She married, August 24, 1829, 
Hezekiah Seymour, born October 29, 1788, son of Joseph 




HON. ELIHU BURRITT 
No. 517 



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W. Seymour of Hartford, and Louisa Warner, his wife. 
They Uved for several years in the "Burritt House" on the 
"Hinsdale Place" in New Britain, Conn. They had two 
children. 

512. EMILY BURRITT ' (Elizabeth Hinsdale' Elijah' John^ Bar- 
nabas' Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter of Elihu Burritt and 
EUzabeth Hinsdale, his wife, born August 12, 1798, died 
in 1839. She married, in 1838, a Captain Taylor of 
Texas. He was Captain of the vessel which carried the 
Colony to Texas in 1838. She had one child, and both 
mother and child died the next year at Galveston, Texas. 

514. MARY BURRITT ' (Elizabeth Hinsdale" Elijah' John* Bar- 

nabas' Barnabas^ Roberta, daughter of Elihu Burritt and 
Elizabeth Hinsdale, his wife, born February 18, 1803, mar- 
ried, May 26, 1825, Warren Williams, son of Gideon 
WiUiams and Eunice Cowles, his wife. After a few years 
he left his wife and went to parts unknown. They had 
two children, both daughters. 

515. WILLIAM BURRITT ' (EHzabeth Hinsdale' Elijah' John* 

Barnabas' Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Elihu Burritt and 
Elizabeth Hinsdale, his wife, born July 8, 1805, died Decem- 
ber 11, 1837. He married. May 5, 1826, Clarissa Cole of 
Berlin, Conn. They had two childi'en. 

517. HONORABLE ELIHU BURRITT^ (EHzabeth Hmsdale* 
Elijah' John* Barnabas' Barnabas^ Robert*), "The Learned 
Blacksmith," U. S. Consul to Birmingham, England, son 
of EUhu Burritt and Elizabeth Hinsdale, his wife, born 
December 8, 1810, died at New Britain, the night of March 
6, 1879, aged 69, unmarried. (See his life by Professor 
Charles Northend.) He was in some respects one of the 
most remarkable men of his age and country. He is better 
known as "The Learned Blacksmith." Born and reared in 
the small village of New Britain, Conn., his early advan- 
tages were limited to the common school and the small 
library of the village. His parents were poor, but they with 
their family of ten children were aU workers. He followed 
the trade of his father, that of a blacksmith. He was very 
modest and in fact diffident, but when some duty or princi- 



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pie was involved, he became as bold as a lion. It is not 
claimed that he had any peculiar genius, except for hard 
work; he made the most of his time and opportunities, and 
had an immense thirst for learning. He was a thorough 
believer in the old adage that "where there is a will, there 
is a way," and he devoted every spare moment to reading 
and study. At the age of twenty-one he entered the 
school of his older brother Elijah, and gave special atten- 
tion to mathematics with the view of becoming a surveyor. 
He made rapid progress, but after one term he found it 
necessary to return to the anvil, and seeing that under such 
conditions the languages could be acquired with greater 
facility than mathematics, he procured a small Greek 
grammar, which he carried in his hat, and reciu-red to it at 
every opportunity. Mornings and evenings were given to 
Latin and French. After a short period of work, he was 
able to devote another term exclusively to study, and went 
to New Haven for the advantage of being near Yale College, 
but, being ashamed, at his age, to ask for help in the ele- 
mentary studies, he determined to learn Greek and He- 
brew without aid. He began with Homer's Iliad and a 
Greek lexicon with Latin definitions, and his success was 
such that he learned not only these languages, but also 
self reliance, and the power of will and application. During 
this winter in New Haven he made rapid progress in the 
languages, ancient and modern. The next year he taught 
an academy in a neighboring town, but his health begin- 
ning to suffer from confinement, he became a travelling 
salesman for a manufacturing concern; then bought an 
interest in a country store, where the financial reversion 
of 1837 found him, and swept away all his savings. A new 
departure being necessary, he walked to Boston, a distance 
of about 125 miles, hoping to find work and an opportunity 
of study, but failed, and retraced his steps to Worcester 
where he found both and gained admittance to the large 
and rare library of the Antiquarian Society, where he 
spent his evenings and leisure hours. Here he found a 
Celto-Breton dictionary and grammar,';and was soon able 
to address a letter in this language, dated August 12, 1838, 
the first and only one ever written in this country, to the 
Royal Antiquarian Society of France. In return, he re- 



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ceived a commendatory letter of acknowledgment and a 
very large volume bearing the seal of the society. Having 
become more or less familiar with all the languages of Eu- 
rope, and several of Asia, he desired to turn his knowledge 
to practical account, and with this view wrote a letter to 
the Hon. Edward Everett. Out of this grew an offer from 
Mr. Everett of a free course at Harvard College, which he 
was compelled to decline for the reason that manual labor 
in connection with study was indispensable to his health. 
About this time he began to be known as "The Learned 
Blacksmith," and in 1841 he began to lecture, by invitation 
before Lyceums and Associations in different parts of the 
country. His first lecture, ''Application and Science," 
was delivered sixty times diu-ing the first winter. His 
argument was, that there is no such thing as genius, and 
that success is the result of patient and persevering applica- 
tion. As mere scholarship, learning, or the acquisition of 
knowledge can never satisfy the soul of an earnest man, 
while so much suffering exists that can be alleviated by 
human effort, he soon turned his attention to philanthropic 
labors. One of the first objects to engage his attention was 
the "Peace Cause." "Peace on earth and good will among 
men." To this he added the advocacy of freedom, tem- 
perance, self-cultiu-e, cheap postage and other reforms, 
and in furtherance of these objects established and edited 
several public journals, lectured, wrote letters, tracts and 
newspaper articles, and devoted himself wholly to human 
progress, as he had done before to learning. Li 1846 he 
went to England in the same ship that carried the news of 
the friendly settlement of the Oregon Question. Here he 
remained three years, working for the Peace Cause, travel- 
ling, lecturing, writing, circulating "Olive Leaves," organ- 
izing "Peace Congresses" in London, Manchester, Brus- 
sels, Frankfort and Paris. In 1847, the year of the great 
famine, he visited Ireland and spent two weeks in going 
from hut to hovel, and was so greatly distressed by what 
he saw that he made a strong and earnest appeal to his 
native state for aid, which did much to intensify the sym- 
pathies of the benevolent and resulted in sending a shipload 
of provisions from Boston to Cork, which were received 
with joyful demonstrations. While in Europe he had ob- 



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served that the high rates of international postage were 
very burdensome to the poorer classes; and on his return 
to America in 1849, he went to work with his accustomed 
zeal and energy to bring about a reform by lectures, letters, 
tracts, newspapers, petitions and visits to congressmen 
and high officials. To him, more than to any other are the 
people indebted for the present increased facilities for inter- 
national correspondence. In 1863 he returned to England 
to fulfill one of the purposes of his first visit, namely, a 
pedestrian tour to gain an insight into the condition of 
the working classes. In this and the year following, he 
walked from London to John O'Groat's and from London 
to Land's End, and published the results of his observa- 
tions in two separate volumes. In 1865 he was appointed 
Consular Agent for Birmingham, England, and as such, 
visited various manufacturing establishments and collected 
information concerning the industries and productions of 
the territory included in his Consulate. This was pub- 
lished in a large volume of 414 pages, aboundmg in valuable 
information. Copies were sent to the State Department 
at Washington, and in return, Mr, Seward sent a highly 
complimentary letter to the author. While at Birmingham 
he also wrote "The Mission of Great Sufferings," 25 pages. 
He also continued his correspondence with the London 
Peace Society, and ■wTote articles for various papers de- 
signed to interest, instruct and benefit the yoimg. His 
whole soul seemed to be fired with a desire to do those 
things which would tend to mitigate suffering and bless 
mankind. No man ever lived whose efforts seemed more 
unselfish or philanthropic in their character and tendency 
than those of Elihu Burritt. He returned to America 
for the last time in 1870, and resumed his residence at New 
Britain, Conn., with his sister and two nieces. In 1874 
he made arrangements to go to England to work up a grand 
International Peace Congress, but while on the way to 
Quebec to embark, a serious illness compelled him to 
abandon the undertaking, and return home. Afterwards 
his labors were limited to his native city and its neighbor- 
hood. He established three or four weekly meetings in as 
many different parts of the town for the benefit of those 
who lived at inconvenient distances from the established 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 215 

churches, and paid all the incidental expenses out of his 
own scanty resources. In one section of the town he 
erected a building to accommodate three hundred persons, 
doing nearly all the work with his own hands. He was 
deeply interested in the public schools, and as a member 
of the local Board of Education frequently visited them 
and addressed the pupils, always a most welcome visitor. 
So in every good work, he continued active as long as his 
strength was sufficient for it. In the autumn of 1878 he 
fully realized that his release was near. Less than a week 
before he died he said to some fellow members of a club 
who called to give him the parting hand, "I hardly know 
whether to say good evening or good-bye." He was a 
sincere Christian, and ready for the summons to go up 
higher. The poet Longfellow says, "I always had a great 
admiration for the sweetness and simplicity of his charac- 
ter, and was in perfect sympathy with him in his work. 
Nothing ever came from his pen that was not wholesome 
and good." Mary Howitt writes of his "stupendous 
knowledge of the languages," his "prodigious learning," 
his "large and benevolent heart, every throb a sentiment 
of brotherhood for all mankind." Of the languages to 
which he gave special attention were the Amharic, Arabic, 
Basque, Bohemian, Celto-Breton, Chaldaic, Cornish Dutch, 
Ethiopic, Flemish, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Hebrew, 
Hindustani, Himgarian, Icelandic, Irish, Latin, Manx, 
Persian, Pohsh, Portuguese, Russian, Samaritan, Sanscrit, 
Spanish, Swedish, Syriac, Turkish and Welsh. 

From the National Cyclopedia of American Biography. 
James T. White & Company, Vol. VI., pp. 133, 134 and 135 : 

"Elihu Burritt, reformer, was born at New Britain, Conn., 
December 8, 1810, being the youngest son in a family of 
ten children equally divided between the two sexes. The 
first traceable American ancestor was William Burritt, a 
native of Glamorganshire, Wales, who settled in Stratford, 
Conn., and died there in 1651. His descendants at the 
time of the war of the revolution took opposite sides, one 
branch going to Canada and the other loyalists. Both the 
grandfather and father of the subject of this sketch, each 
bearing the same Christian name, took part in the struggle. 



216 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

The father, like most of the early settlers in New England, 
plied his trade, that of a shoemaker, in winter and handled 
the plow and sickle in summer. Young Elihu left the com- 
mon school at the time of his father's death in 1825, and 
was some time after apprenticed to a blacksmith. From 
an early age he displayed an extraordinary capacity for 
mathematics. He received strong encouragement from 
one of his brothers, Elijah Burritt, who was himself a fine 
mathematician and an astronomer of much eminence, and 
under the impetus of his cordial interest Elihu, at the age 
of twenty-one, began his first systematic course of self- 
instruction. He acquired a strong liking for languages, 
and studied with such intense zeal after the close of his 
apprenticeship that at the end of a year his health gave 
way, forcing him to abandon the calling of a teacher which 
he had begun under his brother, who kept a small board- 
ing school. He mastered Homer's "Iliad" with the aid 
solely of a Greek lexicon with Latin definitions, and de- 
voted the winter of 1832 to the study of various other 
tongues. Then for a short time he became a commercial 
traveler with the idea of benefiting his health, and subse- 
quently established himself in the grocery trade, but this 
venture was broken up by the commercial crash of 1837. 
After walking to Boston with the idea of taking ship to 
England, and using his earnings to buy Oriental works there, 
he went to Worcester, Mass., and returned to the anvil 
and to his studies, which he prosecuted with increasing 
energy with the help of books from the valuable library 
of the Antiquarian Society of that town, and in the course 
of a year or two had acquainted himself not only with most 
of the languages of Europe, but with many of the Oriental 
tongues, includmg Hebrew, Chaldaic, Syriac, and Ethiopic. 
These varied acquirements, so astonishing in a man of his 
youth and humble station, soon procured him the famiUar 
appellation of the "Learned Blacksmith," and led to his 
being requested to deliver a lectiu-e in the winter of 1841. 
This he did, taking for his subject "Apphcation and 
Genius," and contending that genius, so far from being 
inborn, does not really exist, and that all attainments are 
nothing more than the result of persistent will and applica- 
tion, thus giving utterance to what is at least a great half- 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 217 

truth. The anti-slavery movement was then beginning 
to gather strength, and Ehhu Burritt at once became a 
warm advocate of its doctrines; and so, his thoughts com- 
ing to be drawn into the field of active philanthropy, his 
studies in languages were after awhile perforce discon- 
tinued. Starting to write a description of the analogy 
which he perceived between the configuration and functions 
of the earth and those of the human frame, the con- 
viction grew upon him that differences in the climate and 
natural resources of countries lying in the same parallel 
were preordained, though the necessity of an interchange 
of each coimtry's productions, to form a natural bond of 
union between them. This was the awakening in Burritt's 
mmd of an idea which was thenceforth to shape the actions 
of his whole life — that of universal brotherhood. He 
thereupon prepared a radical "Peace Lecture" out of the 
subject, and delivered it before a Baptist society in the 
Tremont Theater at Boston. He then started a weekly 
paper at Worcester, calling it the "Christian Citizen," 
advocating anti-slavery, peace, temperance, and self- 
cultiu-e. In 1846, in consequence of the part which he 
played in the settlement, through correspondence between 
the commercial communities of England and the United 
States, of the much- vexed "Oregon Question," Burritt 
was invited to England, where during a stay of three years 
he devoted himself to the cause of peace in co-operation 
with its English advocates, and aided greatly in the organi- 
zation in London, in May, 1847, of The League of Universal 
Brotherhood, designed to promote international harmony 
and good will. He shortly after began the publication of 
an official organ called the "Bond of Brotherhood," with 
the result that in less than a year several thousands of 
people in the United Kingdom, and an equal number in 
the United States, had signed the pledge of membership 
in the new association. In September of the same year he 
first mooted the question of ocean penny postage. He was 
greatly touched by the suffering of the Irish peasantry in 
the awful famine of 1846-7, and spent most of February of 
the latter year in a tour of the distressed coimtry for the re- 
lief of the sufferers, to which the Enghsh parliament con- 
tributed no less than $50,000,000. He kept a diary from 



218 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

day to day detailing his experiences, and rarely have hu- 
man suffering, disease, and death been so graphically and 
at the same time touchingly portrayed. Li 1848 Burritt 
became active in the organization of the first international 
congress of the Friends of Peace, going first to Paris to 
complete arrangements, and then visiting the large Eng- 
lish towns for the purpose of securing delegates. The 
poUtical revolution in the French capital, however, caused 
a postponement and change of locale, and the conference 
eventually was held at Brussels in September, the Belgian 
government giving official recognition to it, while both 
English and Continental journals hailed it as a "Peace 
Congress." After its close, the League of Universal Brother- 
hood united with the London Peace Society to petition the 
English parliament through Richard Cobden in favor of 
international arbitration. When Cobden's motion was 
finally put in the House of Commons, over seventy members 
voted in its favor, a remarkable tribute to the intrinsic 
worth of a doctrine then so subversive of all generally 
received ideas on the subject of war and international 
rivalry. The second congress was held in Paris in 1849, 
with Victor Hugo presiding. The great French poet on 
this occasion made a speech which has since been widely 
read and quoted, on account of its inspired spirit and pro- 
phecy. " A day will come," he declared in tones of earnest 
conviction, 'Svhen those two immense groups, the United 
States of America and the United States of Europe, will 
be seen placed in the presence of each other, extendmg the 
hand of fellowship across the ocean — exchanging their 
produce, their commerce, their industries, their arts, their 
genius — clearing the earth, peopling the desert, improv- 
ing creation under the eye of the Creator, and uniting for 
the good of all, these two irresistible and infinite powers — 
the fraternity of men and the power of God." Shortly 
afterwards the American reformer returned home and was 
received with enthusiastic demonstrations of respect and 
delight. He proceeded on a lecturing tour through most 
of the States of the Union, returned to Europe, attended 
the peace congresses at Frankfort-on-the-Main in 1850, 
London, 1851, Manchester, 1852, and Edinburgh, 1853, 
meeting every^^here with signs of the increased hold which 



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the doctrines of universal brotherhood and international 
arbitration had acquired over the minds of all classes. Im- 
mediately after the Edinburgh congress he returned to 
America and devoted himself to agitating ocean penny pos- 
tage, addressing pubhc meetings in different states, seek- 
ing to enlist members of congress in Washington in favor 
of reform, and then touring the southern and western 
sections of the country on its behalf. Then passing through 
Canada he obtained petitions to the British Parliament in 
many of the principle cities, and in August, 1854, once 
more foimd himself in England. His efforts to arouse 
public opinion met with such success that the English 
government made material reductions in the postal charges 
to Australia, India, Canada, and other colonies, as well as 
to France. The Crimean war put an end to the movement 
for universal peace, and Burritt turned his attention to the 
slavery question in his native land, and while yet in London, 
assumed the editorship of a paper published in Philadel- 
phia, the "Citizen of the World," through the columns of 
which he advocated compensated emancipation. Re- 
crossing the Atlantic he spent several winters in traveling 
through the United States, addressing meetings from 
Maine to Iowa, and called a convention in August, 1856, 
at Cleveland, O., to which came delegates from various 
parts of the country, including a few even from the south. 
A resolution was passed favoring the organization of the 
National Compensated Emancipation Co. AU such 
schemes were, however, nipped in the bud by John Brown's 
raid on Harper's Ferry. Burritt's contention was that 
the extinction of the evil of slavery by compensation 
" would have recognized the moral complicity of the whole 
nation in planting and perpetuating it on this continent. 
It would have been an act of repentance, and the meetest 
work for repentance the nation could perform. But it was 
too late. It was too heavy and red to go out in tears. 
Too late! It had to go out in blood, and the whole nation 
opened the million sluices of its best life to deepen and widen 
the costly flood. If, before these sluice-gates were opened 
to these red streams, so hot with passion, one bona fide 
offer had been made by the north to share with the south 
the task, cost, and duty of lifting slavery from the bosom 



220 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

of the nation, perhaps thousands who gave up their first- 
born and youngest-born to death might have looked into 
that river of blood with more ease and comfort at their 
hearts. Although the earth has drunk that red river out 
of human sight, it still runs fresh and full, without the 
waste of a drop, before the eyes of God; and the patriot, 
as well as the Christian, might well wish that he could re- 
cognize in the stream the shadow of an honest effort on the 
part of the north to lift the great sin and curse without 
waiting for such a deluge to sweep them away." Full of 
grief at the failm'e of his plans, he then returned to his 
farm at New Britain. In 1863 he once more crossed to 
Great Britain, and made long toiu^s on foot through Eng- 
land and Scotland, with the pm'pose of acquainting him- 
self with the agricultural pursuits and problems of the king- 
dom, and so enlarging his own and his countrymen's 
knowledge. He wrote two volumes descriptive of these 
walks, which were published in London, In 1865, without 
his solicitation, he was appointed U. S. consular agent to 
Birmingham, was superseded under Grant's administra- 
tion, and after a brief visit to Oxford, where he formed 
the acquaintance of Max MuUer, retiu-ned to his New 
England home in 1870, and there spent the declining years 
of his active and laborious life. Elihu Burritt's character 
was just such a one as furnishes the best possible kind of 
model for youth to study and endeavor to emulate. His 
character was above reproach, his aims of the pm-est and 
highest, his will-power indomitable, his appetite for work 
insatiable. We cannot do better in this connection than 
quote his own words: "All that I have accomplished, or 
expect or hope to accomplish, has been, and will be by 
that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion 
which builds the ant-heap, particle by particle, thought by 
thought, fact by fact. If I was ever actuated by ambition, 
its highest and warmest aspiration reached no further than 
to hope to set before the young men of any coimtry an ex- 
ample in employing those invaluable fragments of time 
called 'odd moments.' " The poet liOngfellow has borne 
his tribute of praise likewise: "I always had a great 
admiration for the sweetness and simplicity of Mr. Burritt's 
character, and was in perfect sympathy with him in his 



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work. Nothing ever came from his pen that was not 
wholesome and good." Of his unfailing efforts in the 
cause of peace, to which he devoted the best energies of his 
life, it is sufficient to say that, if not so successful as he 
would have wished, they have yet led to very important 
results, both during and since his lifetime. One has only 
to call to mind the Geneva tribunal, which settled the 
Alabama difficulties; the Washington treaty, which dis- 
posed of a vexed question between England and the 
United States; the Paris Behring Sea tribunal, which pre- 
vented a possible rupture between the same comitries over 
the seal fisheries question ; and the still more recent repre- 
sentations of the Powers and the United States to Turkey 
in favor of an arbitration committee to regulate the Armen- 
ian troubles; to perceive how powerful and good has been 
the life-work of this single-mhided and zealous reformer. 
It remains to be recorded of Elihu Burritt that, unlike 
most reformers, he was never a bigot; but, broad-minded 
and charitable, he could respect the opinions of others 
even when they were diametrically opposed to his own 
convictions. He had the faculty of making friends among 
all classes, and was in his own person a true apostle of his 
great creed of the brotherhood of man. His pubUshed 
works are "Sparks from the Anvil" (London, 1845); "Mis- 
ceUaneous Writings" (1850); "Olive Leaves" (1853); 
"Thoughts of Things at Home and Abroad" (Boston, 
1854); "Handbook of the Nations" (New York, 1856); 
"A Walk from John O'Groats to Land's End" (London, 
1864); "A Walk from London to Land's End and Back" 
(1864); "TheMissionof Great Suffering" (1867); "Walks 
in the Black Country" (1868); "Lectures and Speeches" 
(1869); "Ten Minute Talks" (1873); and "Chips from 
Many Blocks" (1878). His life has been written by 
Charles Northend (New York, 1879)." 

From the St. Louis Globe Democrat, July 11, 1897s 
"America is not hkely to class among its great orators 
a simple New England blacksmith who rose to eminence 
as a gifted linguist and a devotee of humanitarianism. 
But it happens to be a fact that on one occasion the sim- 
ple Elihu Burritt, inspired by his enthusiasm for humanity, 



222 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

did make one of the most notable speeches ever uttered by 
an American. Beginning with 1846, he spent three years 
in England, everywhere lectm'ing in behalf of the League 
of Universal Brotherhood. We are told that his first 
appearance before a London audience was met with the 
most turbulent and noisy opposition. "Amid cries for ad- 
journment, whooping and jeering, Mr. Burritt made effort 
after effort to be heard, but in vain. All was uproar. But 
at last patience won the day." Speaking of the affair, Mr. 
Burritt himself says, " I summoned all my physical power, 
and when I had won the audience I spoke for two hours 
as I had never done before in my life." When he had 
finished and began to offer the pledge, bursts of applause 
were so continuous as to almost prevent his work. Four 
times he undertook to read the last clause of the constitu- 
tion of the brotherhood. When he came to the word 
"color" the house went into a most furious and enthusias- 
tic acclamation, echoing and resounding with applause. 
Ladies waved their handkerchiefs, while men swung their 
hats. He sat down amid such a tempest of cheers as 
hardly ever greeted any man on any public occasion in 
England. Burritt, describing the handshaking that fol- 
lowed and the autograph-seekmg, and his final escape to 
his quiet room, records, "I threaded my way back to the 
days of my bashful boyhood, through all the way the Lord 
hath led me." The greatness of the occasion lay not a 
little in the fact, that this man was absolutely self-forgetful 
and considered himself an instrument of the Lord God. 
As such he had mastered the most bitter opposition and 
won the most tempestuous indorsement." 

518. EUNICE WAKEMAN BURRITT' (EHzabeth Hinsdale" 
Elijah^ Jolm* Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert'), daughter of 
Elihu Burritt and Elizabeth Hinsdale, his wife, born May 
2, 1813, married first, April 24, 1833, Jabez Cornwall of 
Middletown, Conn. He went to Texas in 1837, and died 
there November 9, 1837. She went west as a teacher under 
the patronage of Governor Slade; was a passenger on the 
ill-fated steamer "Atlantic," when is was sunk by a col- 
lision on the lake. She lost everything but her night- 
clothes. She behaved with great coolness and mtre- 



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pidity and was one of the few saved. She married, second, 
March 17, 1853, Professor A. J. Sawyer, a Professor in 
Chicago University, by whom she had three children, all 
born at Chicago. 

519. ALMIRA BID WELL BURRITT' (EUzabeth Hinsdale" 

Elijah^ John^ Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert*), daughter of 
Elihu Bm-ritt and Elizabeth Hinsdale, his wife, born July 
27, 1816, married, November 24, 1836, Stephen Lyman 
Strickland, born September 22, 1813, died IVIarch 24, 
1865, aged 51, son of Stephen Strickland and Nancy Tryon, 
his wife. He was warden of the borough of New Britain, 
and active in enlarging and beautifying the village. Elihu 
Burritt made his home with Mrs. Strickland and her two 
daughters. The latter accompanied their celebrated uncle 
to England and presided over his household at Birmingham. 

Children : 

1010. i. ANNA CORNWELL, born Jan. 24, 1838. 

1011. ii. ELLEN LOUISA, born Nov. 16, 1840; died May 8, 1891. 

520. DEACON ALFRED ANDREWS ' (Roxana Hinsdale' Eli- 

jah^ John* Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Captain 
Ezekiel Andrews and his first wife, Roxana Hinsdale, born 
at New Britain, Conn,, October 16, 1797, was baptized 
October 30, 1803, by Reverend John Smalley, D. D. He 
obtained a common school education in the south-west 
district; spent the winter term of 1814-15 in the Episcopal 
Academy at Cheshire, Conn.; became a school teacher in 
November, 1815; a Sunday School teacher in the spring of 
1816, and continued as such tiU 1867. On December 16, 
1818, he married Caroline Bird Hart, daughter of Abijah 
Hart of New Britain, who died of spotted fever August 22, 
1823. He married as his second wife, September 15, 1824, 
Mary Lee Shipman, daughter of Joseph Shipman of New 
Britain. Deacon Alfred Andrews' home was nearly oppo- 
site that of his father and grandfather on West ]\Iain Street, 
two miles west of the town, near the Quinnipiac River. 
It was built in 1820. He joined the First Church of New 
Britain, August 5, 1812; was appointed one of the stand- 
ing church committee December 30, 1823, in place of 
Ensign Levi Andrews, resigned; was superintendent of 



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the Sabbath school in 1826; and deacon of the church 
October 23, 185L He learned the wagon and carriage 
making business, and was extensively engaged in the manu- 
factiu"e of cast-iron ploughs, wagons and carriages, in the 
firm of A. & E. Andrews. The business failed in 1837, 
having been biu'nt out. Deacon Alfred Andrews was en- 
listed in common schools, Sunday schools and the temper- 
ance cause. He was appointed secretary of the Sabbath 
School Union, for Wethersfield, Berlin, and vicinity, Sep- 
tember 6, 1832, and resigned, September 4, 1866. He was 
a zealous anti-slavery man, held public offices, and was 
employed in the settlement of estates. He began his 
genealogical researches for the "Andrews Memorial" in 
1855, but deferred it for the compilation of his "History of 
New Britain," which he began February, 1858, and finished 
and deUvered the first copies December, 1867, and began 
the "Hart Memorial" in 1870, and carried on both at the 
same time. Deacon Alfred Andrews was a member of the 
Connecticut Historical Society, and corresponding member 
of the Wisconsin Historical Society. He died April 13, 
1876, at his home in New Britain. His second son, Dea- 
con Cornelius Andrews, lives on the homestead. 

Children : 

By his first wife, Caroline Bird H.vrt. 

1012. i. JULIA ANN, bom Nov. 15, 1819; baptized Aug. 19, 1821; 

died Nov. 29, 1904; unmarried; lived on the old home- 
stead at New Britain with her brother, Deacon Cornelius 
Andrews. 

1013. ii. CAROLINE HART, bom Dec. 4, 1822; married Elisha 

Burt Bridgman. 

By his second wife, Mary Lee Shipm.vn. 

1014. iii. MARGARETTE, born Aug. 30, 1826; married Major 

James Burtis Merwin. 

1015. iv. ELIZA SHIPMAN, bom April 8, 1828; married Deacon 

Sidney Smith. 

1016. V. EDWIN NORTON, (Re\t:rend), born Sept. 1, 1832; 

married Marj' Eliza Berry. 

1017. vi. CORNELIUS, (Deacon), bom Nov. 1, 1834; married 

Ann Eliza Andrews. 

1018. vii. ALFRED HINSDALE, bom Dec. 25, 1836; married 

Ella Cornelia Matson. 

1019. \nii. JANE LOUISA, bom April 22, 1842; died Jan. 25, 1844. 

1020. ix. HERBERT LEE, bom June 6, 1S44; married Emma 

Shaw Cuthbert. 



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1021. X. JANE LOUISA, bom Aug. 10, 1847; married Lieutenant- 

Governor Lyman Allen Mills. 

521. THESTA ANDREWS^ (Roxana Hinsdale" Elijah'^ John* 
Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert*), daughter of Captain 
Ezekiel Andrews and his first wife, Roxana Hinsdale, born 
December 16, 1798, baptized October 30, 1803, married, 
November 27, 1823, Captain Bryan Porter, born at 
White Oak, Conn., son of Samuel Porter of Farmington, 
Conn., and Abigail Hamlin, his wife. She united with 
the First Congregational Church of New Britain, Conn., 
October 3, 1819, and was recommended to the Congrega- 
tional Church in Farmington, 1824. She died January 
25, 1828, of consumption, aged 29 years. 

Child: 

1022. i. ANN, bom Dec. 9, 1825; died December, 1854, aged 27; 

immarried. 



525. MARY BID WELL ANDREWS' (Roxana Hinsdale" Eli- 
jah^ John* Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert^), daughter of Cap- 
tain Ezekiel Andrews and his first wife, Roxana Hinsdale, 
born April 13, 1807, baptized Jvme 7, 1807; taught school 
in early life. She united with the First Church m New 
Britain, Conn., August 5, 1821, during the great revival 
of that year. She married, April 21, 1830, Samuel E. 
CuRTiss, son of Leverett Curtiss, of Southington, and Ruth 
Barnes, his wife. He was born March 8, 1808; was a 
shoemaker by trade, and became an artist in the photo- 
graphic Ime late in life. He miited with the First Church 
in New Britain, December 1, 1833, by letter from the Con- 
gregational church of Southington. He Uved on the turn- 
pike from Waterbiu-y to Middletown, in the southern part of 
Southington, for several years, where he owned a pleasant 
home. Later he lived in New Britain, Meriden, Broadal- 
bin, N. Y., Madison, Wis., and in 1871 at Waterloo, Wis. 
Mary Bidwell Andrews was energetic, ambitious and 
industrious, but by sickness and nervous debility was bed- 
ridden for several years and helpless ; yet she recovered and 
was in later years able to care for her family and enjoy 
life. She died August 25, 1880. 



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Children: 

1023. i. FRANCES MARION, born May 30, 1834, at New Britain; 

baptized there, July 11, 1834, died, unmarried, Apr. 
27, 1860, at Madison, Wis., aged 25. 

1024. ii. EDWIN RODNEY, bom May 6, 1836; baptized Nov 6, 

1836, at Southington. 

1025. iii. NATHAN SELAH, born Oct. 19, 1838. 

1026. iv. GEORGE FREDERIC, bom Oct. 11, 1849; died June 

12, 1854, at Broadalbin, N. Y. 

526. EZEKIEL ANDREWS' (Roxana Hinsdale" Elijah^ John* 
Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert^), son of Captain Ezekiel 
Andrews and his first wife, Roxana Hinsdale, born July 19, 
1809, baptized October 22, 1809, married, August?, 1833, 
Sarah E. Parker, born m Virginia, June 26, 1815, daugh- 
ter of Hiland Parker of Coventryville, Chenango County, 
N. Y., and Lydia Pratt, his wife. Ezekiel Andrews taught 
school in early manhood. He learned the trade of black- 
smith in Hartford at Force and Goodnow's carriage fac- 
tory. He became a member of the First Church of New 
Britain, Conn,, January 4, 1829, and his wife, August 7, 
1833; and both were constituent members of the South 
Congregational church in 1842. They lived on West 
Main Street, two miles west of New Britain, at and on the 
home of his father and grandfather, and he ran the saw- 
mill erected before 1768 by the grandfather, Hezekiah 
Andrews. In 1868 it claimed the distinction of being the 
first mill on the Quinnipiac, although there were formerly 
two others higher up on the stream. The mill is now 
demolished, Ezekial Andrews was a magistrate, select- 
man, militia officer, and held a high rank in the Masonic 
fraternity, and hved two years in Texas. He was one of 
the firm of A. & E. Andrews, who for some fifteen years 
carried on an extensive business in the manufacture of 
cast-iron ploughs, wagons, and carriages, but in 1836 
burnt out and failed. He and his sons sold out all their 
interest in the premises m 1868, to Lester S. Hills of Hart- 
ford, and left for other business and localities. He bought 
in Meriden in 1869, and resided there m 1871. 

Children : 

1027. i. Infant, bom June 27, 1834; died same day. 

1028. ii. ANGEVINE, born Sept. 7, 1835; married Lester Shel- 

ton Hills. 



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1029. iii. NATHAN HOSMER, born Dec. 28, 1837; died Sept. 9, 

1843, aged 6. 

1030. iv. FRANKLIN -HALL, born July 31, 1839; died July 27, 

1843, aged 4. 

1031. V. RODERICK BALDWIN, born Oct. 9, 1841; married 

Emma R. Fiske. 

1032. vi. AGNES HOSMER, born Nov. 9, 1843; married Lieuten- 

ant Wilbur D. Fiske. 

1033. vii. NATHAN HALL, born Mar. 7, 1846. 

1034. viii. FRANKLIN HINSDALE, bom Sept. 26, 1849. 

527. NATHAN HOSMER ANDREWS ' (Roxana Hinsdale' Eli- 

jah* John* Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Captain 
Ezekiel Andrews and his first wife, Roxana Hinsdale, born 
at New Britain, Conn., June 22, 1812, baptized August 30, 
1812, by Reverend Newi:on Skinner; learned carriage 
making of Charles Hoadly of New Haven, Conn. He 
made a good wood workman or body maker, and was 
energetic and intelligent. He went to Texas and fell by 
fever in Houston, October 27, 1837, aged 25. His bones 
lie in that common graveyard of the South, where thou- 
sands went before him, and hundreds of thousands of our 
brightest young men have fallen since. It is a grave that 
still cries give! give!! 

528. ROXANA ANDREWS' (Roxana Hinsdale' Elijah' John* 

Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert^), daughter of Captain Eze- 
kiel Andrews and his first wife, Roxana Hinsdale, born at 
New Britain, Conn., April 6, 1815, baptized September 3, 
1815, died of consumption at Lenox, Mass., September 21, 
1854. She taught school in early life. She united with 
the First Church in New Britain, January 4, 1829. She 
married. May 20, 1835, Enos M. Smith, a merchant in 
New Britain, son of Allan Smith of Lenox, Mass., and 
Amanda Woodruff, his wife. He built a house on high 
Street, which place he afterwards sold, and removed to the 
State of New York, and married, second, July 10, 1855, 
Lucy Alvord, of Broadalbin, N. Y. They lived in New 
York City in 1871. 

Children : 

1035. i. JANE ELIZABETH, bom Mar. 29, 1836; baptized 1837; 

died Apr. 27, 1837, at New Haven, Conn. 

1036. ii. ENOS NATHAN, born May 26, 1838; died Sept. 24, 

1864, in the hospital at New York, as a soldier. 



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1037. iii. EDWIN A. M., bom Jan. 20, 1841, at Volney, N. Y. 

1038. iv. EVERETT, bom Sept. 5, 1845; died Sept. 29, 1845, 

at Batavia, N. Y. 

529. JANE LOUISA ANDREWS' (Roxana Hinsdale' Elijah* 
John^ Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter of Captain 
Ezekiel Andrews and his first wife, Roxana Hinsdale, born 
at New Britain, Conn., February 2, 1818, baptized April 
26, 1818, died at Goshen, Conn., April 7, 1842, aged 24. 
She married, September 11, 1837, William Miles, Jr., of 
Goshen. She had become a member of the First Church 
of New Britain, August 6, 1837, and was recommended to 
the Congregational Church of Goshen. They had no 
children to live long. She was beautiful and lovely. Her 
monument is in Goshen Hill Cemetery. 

542. HENRY HINSDALE ' (Hosea* John^ John* Barnabas' Bar- 

nabas^ Robert^, son of Colonel Hosea Hinsdale and Eliza- 
beth Shepard, his wife, born August 31, 1807, died October 
14, 1846. He married, October 13, 1834, Jane Coe, born 
August 14, 1812, died October 5, 1839, daughter of Jona- 
than Coe. 

Child: 

1039. i. HARRIET AMELIA, bom Oct. 22, 1835; died June 1, 

1842. 

543. CAROLINE HINSDALE ' (Hosea" John^ John* Barnabas' 

Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter of Colonel Hosea Hinsdale 
and EUzabeth Shepard, his wife, born July 19, 1811, died 
October 8, 1890. She married, April 23, 1834 or 1835, 
Bezaleel Beebe Rockwell, born October 28, 1809, son 
of Deacon Reuben Rockwell and Rebecca Beebe, his wife. 

Children : 

1040. i. ELIZABETH HINSDALE, bom Jan. 18, 1836; unmarried; 

has been for many years at the head of an excellent 
school at Wilkesbarre, Penn., and is widely known as a 
successful educator. 

1041. ii. JULIA, born Oct. 18, 1838; unmarried. 

1042. iii. CAROLINE REBECCA, born June 1, 1840. 

1043. iv. MARY PITKIN, born Sept. 10, 1844; married Edward 

P. Wilcox; they live in Winstead, Conn. 

1044. V. JOHN, born 1847; died in infancy. 



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1045. vi. KATE LOUISA, bom June 29, 1850; died Oct. 23, 1884; 

married Grove Sackett. 

1046. vii. LILLIAN, born Feb. 22, 1854; unmarried; died at Den- 

ver, Colo., Feb. 18, 1898, of consumption; buried at 
Windsor, Conn., Feb. 25, 1898. 

545. JOHN HINSDALE^ (Hosea« John Uohn* Barnabas' Barna- 

bas^' Roberto, son of Colonel Hosea Hinsdale and Eliza- 
beth Shepard, his wife, born May 10, 1817, married, August 
31, 1841, Amanda Malvina Alvord, born August 20, 1821, 
daughter of Deacon James H. Alvord and Lucy Cook, his 
wife. 

Children : 

1047. i. MARYELIZABETH,bornMar. 18, 1848; married Robert 

R. Noble. 

1048. ii. JOHN ALVORD, born Oct. 22, 1858; lives in Boston, 

Mass. 

546. JAMES HINSDALE COOK' (Amelia Hinsdale' John» 

John* Barnabas' Barnabas^ Robert*), son of Anson Cook 
and Ameha Hinsdale, his wife, born March 9, 1809, married, 
February 2, 1831, Sarah E. Stillman, of Barkhamsted, 
Conn., who was born February 27, 1814. She was living 
at Barkhamsted in 1879. 

Children : 

1049. i. ALBERT T., born Mar. 7, 1832; married, Apr. 3, 1859, 

Louise M. Welch. 

1050. ii. CATHERINE B., bom Feb. 16, 1835; married Doctor 

Greorge R. Gyles. 

1051. iii. ELLEN F., bom Mar. 31, 1839; married Samuel E. 

Staples. 

1052. iv. ANSON B., bom Oct. 28, 1843; married Minnie Frey. 

547. RHODA AMELIA COOK ' (Amelia Hinsdale' John» John* 

Barnabas^ Barnabas^' Robert *), daughter of Anson Cook 
and Ameha Hinsdale, his wife, born December 16, 1810, 
died October 8, 1865, aged 55. She married Alanson 
Davis of Winsted, Conn., who died in 1869. 

Children : 

1053. i. FRANKLIN, bom 1838. 

1054. u. ANNETTE. 



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548. SHERMAN TUTTLE COOK^ (Amelia Hinsdale' John^ 
John* Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert'), son of Anson Cook 
and Amelia Hinsdale, his wife, born March 22, 1813, mar- 
ried, first, November 27, 1839, Cornelia Emeline Jaqua, 
who was born at Canaan, Conn., October 16, 1817, and 
died by a railroad accident in October, 1856. He married, 
second, April 28, 1857, Lucia Maria Stillman, widow of 
a Mr. Cross. 

Children : 

By his first wife, Cornelia Emeline Jaqua. 

1055. i. EDWARD SHERMAN, bom Dec. 20, 1841; married Sue 

L. Lynds. 

1056. ii. FREDERICK MONROE, born Mar. 28, 1843; married 

Persis Emily Lea\itt. 

1057. iii. CORNELIA ELVIRA, born Sept. 15, 1850; married 

David Washington Try on. 

1058. iv. EMMA AMELIA, bom Oct. 3, 1853; married George 

Webster Tryon. 

556. WILLIAM HINSDALE BUTLER' (Chloe Hinsdale' Bar- 

nabas'* Daniel Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Henry- 
Butler and Chloe Hinsdale, his wife, born March 4, 1798, died 
July 27, 1880. He married, October 22, 1826, Henrietta 
Barbara Mygatt, who was born January 4, 1806, and 
died August 19, 1888. 

Children : 

1059. i. HORACE MALCOLM, born Feb. 1, 1828; married Cor- 

neUa Catherine Dorman. 

1060. ii. JANE GRANT, born Jan. 2, 1830; died Feb. 25, 1830. 

557. JEREMIAH BUTLER ' (Chloe Hinsdale" Barnabas^ Daniel* 

Barnabas' Barnabas^ Robert*), son of Henry Butler and 
Chloe Hinsdale, his wife, was born April 18, 1800; married 
Elizabeth Ogden Ward, of New York, February 17, 1823. 
She was born April 11, 1801, and died May 11, 1877. They 
lived in Philadelphia, Pa. He died October 1, 1865. 

Children: 

1061. i. ELIZABETH, born Oct. 3, 1825; died June 17, 1868; mar- 

ried Aug. 5, 1856, Reverend Edward Lounsberry, who 
died Oct. 12, 1878; no children. 

1062. ii. CATHERINE TAYLOR, born Mar. 11, 1827; married 

Sept. 18, 1866, Henry L. BoUman, who [died Apr. 18, 
1888; no children. 



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1063. iii. LOUISE CALDWELL, born Apr. 16,1829; married John 

Randall Whitney. 

1064. iv. MARTHA HINSDALE, bom Dec. 25, 1830; married 

Sept. 10, 1878, James C. DeCon of Trenton, N. J., who 
was born Nov. 14, 1839; no children. 

1065. V. SARAH FOSDICK, born Sept. 12, 1832; unmarried; lives 

in Westchester, Pa. 

1066. vi. HENRY LEWIS, born July 11, 1834; died Oct. 19,1834. 

1067. vii. MARIA WARD, bom Oct. 22, 1835; married July 15, ; 

1880, Reverend J. M. Hastings, who died Sept. 9, 1892; , 
no children; she lives in Westchester, Pa. 

1068. viii. HENRY LEWIS, bom June or July, 25, 1837; married 

Harriet Emma Hale. 

1069. ix. CHARLES FOSDICK, bom July 30, 1839; died Mar. 7, 

1863; unmarried. 

1070. X. PRESTON, born Oct. 22, 1841; married IsabeUaE. Good. 



559. HENRY BUTLER, JR.' (Chloe Hinsdale" Barnabas^ Daniel* 
Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert^), son of Henry Butler and 
Chloe Hinsdale, his wife, born January 17, 1806; died 
November 14, 1892. He married, first, June 7, 1831, his 
cousin, Martha Hinsdale (No. 575), who was born Octo- 
ber 19, 1808, and died at Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1841 or 1842, 
daughter of Horace Seymour Hinsdale and his first wife, 
Sarah Ogden. He married second, June, 1844, Susan M. 
De Witt, of Norwalk, Conn. 

Children : 

By his first wife, Martha Hinsdale. 

1071. i. CORTLANDT PALMER, bom May 24, 1832; died Oct. 

1854. 

1072. ii HORACE HINSDALE, born Dec. 5, 1834; died 1835. 

1073. iii. HORACE HINSDALE, bom Oct. 11, 1835; married 

Anna F. Gordon. 

1074. iv. EMMA OGDEN, bom Apr. 24, 1839; unmarried; living 

in Blairstown, N. J. 

1075. V. HENRY SEYMOUR, (Reverend), born Oct. 19, 1840; 

married twice. 

By his second wife, Susan M. De Witt. 

1076. vi. MARTHA BARSTOW, died in infancy. 

1077. vii. MARTHA BARSTOW, born Dec. 18, 1846; died Oct. 2, 

1873; married Reverend Leavitt HaUock. 

1078. viii. HARRIET DE WITT, born Jan. 10, 1848; unmarried; 

living at Brooklyn, N. Y. 

1079. ix. CHARLES STRONG,, born Nov. 19, 1850; died un- 

married. 



232 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

1080. X. ALFRED HUNTINGTON, bom Apr. 27, 1856; un- 

married; living at Brooklyn, N. Y. 

560 REVEREND DANIEL BUTLER ' (Chloe Hinsdale" Bar- 
nabas* Daniel* Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert'), son of Henry- 
Butler and Chloe Hinsdale, his wife, born June 28, 1808, 
died February 4, 1892. He married, October 8, 1839, 
Jane Douglas, who died Jaimary 16, 1892. He was agent 
of the Massachusetts Bible Society, and lived near Boston, 
Mass, 

Children : 

1081. i. JAAIES DOUGLAS, born Feb. 3, 1840; died Feb. 10, 

1892; married, first, Feb. 14, 1871, Clara Hvmiphrey, 
bom Sept. 23, 1872; married, second, Jan. 3, 1883. 
Mollie Clough Rockwell. 

1082. ii. HENRY HINSDALE, married June 25, 1887, Sarah 

Tucker. 

1083. iii. JANE DOUGLAS, married June 20, 1882, William 

Henry Chany, who died Feb. 7, 1891. 

561. REVEREND CHARLES JAMES HINSDALE' (Epaph- 
ras' Barnabas* Daniel* Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert'), son 
of Epaphras Hinsdale and his first wife, Elizabeth Bowen, 
born in New York City, February 12, 1796, died October 
17, 1871, aged 75 years. He married, first, April 17, 1823, 
Catherine Banks Crane, daughter of David D. Crane of 
Newark, N. J., and widow of Erastus Chittenden. She was 
born November 1, 1792, and died April 26, 1865. She was 
married August 26, 1817, to her first husband, Erastus 
Chittenden, who was born September 25, 1785, and died 
at Savannah, Ga., November 17, 1817. She had no chil- 
dren by him. Reverend Charles James Hinsdale married 
second, November 22, 1866, Mary A., widow of Henry 
Lloyd of Blandford, Mass. She was born June 25, 1808, 
and died November 14, 1893. He was graduated at Yale 
College, 1815. He spent two years at Andover Theolog- 
ical Seminary, and one year at Princeton Seminary, where 
he was graduated in 1819. In 1820 he went as a mis- 
sionary to the South, where he remained about two 
years. Soon after his return he was called to the First 
Congregational Church at Meriden, Conn., where he was 
ordained and installed January 15, 1823, and where he 



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continued until December 31, 1833. In 1835 he was called 
to the Congregational Church at Blandford, Mass., where 
he was installed January 7, 1836, retaining this office until 
he was dismissed at his own request, in December, 1860. 
His death was caused by a runaway. He was instantly 
killed by being thrown from his carriage. 

Children, born at Meriden, Conn: 

1084. i. CHARLES, born May 23, 1824; died Oct. 31, 1824. 

1085. ii. CATHERINE, bora May 23, 1824; died July 23, 1825. 

1086. iv. JAMES CRANE, bom Nov. 25, 1825; married twice. 

1087. iv. SARAH HALSTEAD, bom Aug. 24 or 29,1827; died at 

Blandford, Mass., May 21, 1880; unmarried. 

1088. V. WILLIAM EPAPHRAS, born Oct. 11, 1830; married 

Christiana Goodwin. 

1089. vi. CHARLES BOWEN, born Nov. 22, 1832; died at Meriden, 

Mar. 25, 1833. 

1090. vii. HARRIET MARIA, born Jan. 9, 1834; died Aug. 9, 

1902, at five minutes past twelve in the early morning; 
she was of Blandford, Mass.; unmarried. 

562. EMILY SEYMOUR HINSDALE^ (Epaphras« Barnabas^ 
Daniel" Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter of Epaph- 
ras Hinsdale and his second wife, Elizabeth or Nancy 
Camp, married at Newark, N. J., October 16, 1823, Doctor 
Jabez G. Goble. 

Children : 

1091. i. ELIZABETH H.,born Sept. 11, 1824; married Stephen A. 

Halsey. 

1092. ii. L. SPENCER, born Feb. 5, 1826; married in New York 

City, June 21 , 1861 , Elinor C. Batchelor of Baltimore, Md. 

1093. iii. WILLIAM PIERSON. 

564. GEORGE PLUMB ' (Catherme Hinsdale' Barnabas' Daniel" 
Barnabas^ Barnabas^ RobercM, son of Ichabod Plumb and 
Catherine Hinsdale, his wife, born at Hartford, Conn., Au- 
gust 20, 1802, died in Delaware County, 0., 1831. He mar- 
ried, in 1826, Abby Thrall. He was a wagon-maker by 
trade and lived in Delaware County, 0., until his death. 

Children : 

1094. i. HENRY, born 1827. 

1095. ii. GEORGE, bom 1831. 

568. JAMES PLUMB ^ (Catherine Hinsdale" Barnabas' Daniel" 
Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert*), son of Ichabod Plumb and 



234 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Catherine Hinsdale, his wife, born in Berkshire, O., July 
10, 1810, died July 15, 1852. He married, 1831, Mary 
FiDLER, who died October, 1871. 

Children : 

1096. i. GENIUS, born Aug. 21, 1832; died at Waterford, Knox 

Co., O., Feb. 18, 1852. 

1097. ii. LORETTAC, bom Dec. 2, 1835; married Daswin Leonard. 

1098. iii. LOUISA, bora Dec. 2, 1835; died Jan. 3, 1838. 
1699. iv. LEWIS E., bom Mar. 27, 1840; married Mary Shaff. 

1100. V. NATHAN J., bom Sept. 8, 1843; married Julia T. Walling; 

he was a missionary to China. 

1101. vi. THOMAS T., born Aug. 12, 1847. 

1102. vii. ZEN AS B., born Aug. 12, 1847; married Mattie A. Gillis; 

lives in Mount Gilead, O. 

569. DAVID PLUMB ' (Catherine Hinsdale" Barnabas^ DanieP 
Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Ichabod Plumb and 
Catherine Hinsdale, his wife, born July 9, 1812, married, 
December 14, 1836, Hannah Maria Bierce. 

Children: 

1103. i. PRESTON B., (Honorable), born Oct. 12, 1837; married 

Caroline A. Southwick. 

1104. ii. ELLEN, born Mar. 1, 1840; unmarried. 

1105. iii. JOSEPHUS, born June 28, 1841 ; died at Emporia, Kan., in 

1857. 

1106. iv. GEORGE, born Dec. 15, 1843; married Ellen M. Coles; 

lives at Emporia. 

1107. V. WILLIAM, born June 27, 1846; married Sally Thomson; 

lives in Tuscarora, Nev. 

1108. vi. ARTHUR W., born Dec. 31, 1849; married Mar. 7, 1874, 

Ellen Nora Wheeler; lives in Reading, Kan. 

1109. vii. MARY ELIZA, born Sept. 20, 1852; married Dec. 24, 1872, 

Perry Edwards. 

1110. viii. CHARLES, bom June 15, 1857; died Aug. 25, 1857. 

573. ZEN AS PLUMB' (Catherine Hinsdale' Barnabas" DanieP 
Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Ichabod Plumb and 
Catherine Hinsdale, his wife, born April 16, 1821, died at 
Stewart, la., about 1886. He married, about 1845, 
Merrietta Ward. He was a wagon-maker. 

Children : 

nil. i. SANFORD, bom about 1846. 

1112. ii. WILLIAM, bom about 1848; married Starr. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 235 

574. HENRY BUTLER HINSDALE' (Horace Seymour« Bar- 
nabas'* Daniel^ Barnabas' Barnabas^ Robert^), son of Horace 
Seymour Hinsdale and his first wife, Sarah Ogden, born in 
New York City, February 9, 1807, died at Kenosha, Wis., 
February 15, 1889. He married, first, March 9, 1831, 
Laura B. Clark, who died September 7, 1837, daughter 
of John Clark of Boston, Mass. He married, second, May 
28, 1839, Mary Ann Hatch, who was born at Fredericks- 
town, Md., November 11, 1819, and died November 9, 
1892. She was daughter of Reverend Frederick Winslow 
Hatch of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and Mary Ann Weatherburn, 
his wife.* He died there in 1860, and his wife in 1862. Mr. 
Hinsdale acquired his education in Basking Ridge Acad- 
emy of New Jersey, which he attended until eighteen 
years of age, when he became an employe in a wholesale 
mercantile establishment. He afterwards became a mem- 
ber of the firm and had accumulated enough to retire from 
business life when the great fire of New York, in 1835, 
swept away all that he had. He then took charge of the 
affairs of the company and settled the books. He continued 
in the East until May, 1843, when he removed to South- 
port, now Kenosha, Wis., where he spent the remainder of 
his life, although his business interests were sometimes 
elsewhere. For twelve years he was engaged in the lum- 
ber trade with F. B. Gardner & Co, of Chicago, 111., and was 
then Secretary of the North- Western Telegraph Company 
until his death. He was successful in his business career; 
was always benevolent and charitable; and gave freely 
of his means to worthy causes. In politics he was an en- 
thusiastic Republican, but never an aspirant for office. 
However, he served as Postmaster for Southport for one 
term, being appomted to the position in 1844. In New 
York he was a member of the Volunteer Fire Department, 
and after going west he organized the Fire Department 

♦REVEREND FREDERICK WINSLOW HATCH, of Frederickstown, 
Md., and Poughkeepsie, N. Y., of English descent, married Mary Ann 
Weatherburn, also of English descent. He was the first Rector of St. Mat- 
thews Church at Kenosha, Wis. With his family he went there as a missionary 
in 1843, and remained until 1856, when he went to California, where his death 
occurred in 1860. His wife died there in 1862. He was an intimate friend 
of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, and served for three years as Chap- 
lain in Congress. They had four children, two sons and two daughters, one 
of whom, Mary Ann Hatch, married Henry Butler Hinsdale. 



236 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

in Kenosha. He was a fine type of the intelligent, enter- 
prising, pubUc spirited American citizen. If a prosy 
gathering needed stirring up and enthusing, he could, in 
well chosen words, make a crisp, impressive speech that 
would move the assemblage to the desired pitch of enthu- 
siasm on any question of public policy. He was instru- 
mental in founding the Kenosha Free School, which was 
the first absolutely free school outside of New England, 
that is, the first to which a man might send his children re- 
gardless of the amoimt of tax he paid. Mr. Hinsdale 
belonged to the Episcopal Church and took great interest in 
its work, serving as treasurer and warden. He was a mem- 
ber of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and was a 
man held in the highest esteem by all who knew him, for 
many excellencies of character and the upright life which 
he Uved. 

Children: 

By his first wife, Laura B. Clark. 

1113. i. ROBERT GRAHAM, (Reverend), born in New York 

City, Nov. 2, 1833; married three times. 
By his second wife, Mary Ann Hatch. 

1114. ii. ANNA WEATHERBURN, bom July 25, 1840; married 

Right Reverend Hugh Miller Thompson. 

1115. iii. HENRY BUTLER, born Feb. 18, 1842; died at Kenosha, 

Wis., Jan. 24, 1863. 

1116. iv. SARAH OGDEN, born June, 1844; died June, 1845. 

1117. v. CATHERINE HUTCHINSON, born Nov. 5, 1846; un- 

married; lived at Kenosha. 

1118. vi. FREDERICK WINSLOW, born Sept., 1848; died Oct., 

1849. 

1119. vii. HORACE GRAHAM, (Reverend), born Sept. 15, 1850; 

died Oct. 29, 1871, in consequence of exposure in trying 
to save lives at the time of the Chicago fire; he was an 
ordained minister in the Episcopal Church. 

1120. viii. MARY, born Feb. 13, 1854; died Feb., 1856. 

576. JULIA HINSDALE ' (Henry Seymour' Barnabas^ Daniel* 
Barnabas' Barnabas'* RobertO, daughter of Henry Seymour 
Hinsdale and his first wife, Sarah Ogden, born at Brooklyn, 
N. Y., December 11, 1812, died at Green Bay, Wis., August 
22, 1881. She married, September 5, 1843, Daniel But- 
ler of Green Bay, Wis. 
Children: 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 237 

1121. i. WILLIAM SEYMOUR, bom Aug. 30, 1844; now living 

in Green Bay, Wis.; married Laura Sanborn of Milton, 
Wis., Nov. 25, 1869; no chUdren. 

1122. ii. ELIZABETH, born at Green Bay, Wis., Aug. 10, 1847; 

married George W. Lamb. 

577. WILLIAM LEWIS HINSDALE ^ (Henry Seymour« Barna- 
bas^ Daniel* Barnabas^ Barnabas'' Roberti), son of Henry 
Seymour Hinsdale and his first wife, Sarah Ogden, born in 
New York City, December 23, 1816, died at Milwaukee, Wis., 
October 26, 1900. He married, May 12, 1846, Isabella 
PuRViANCE CouRTENAY, who died February 24, 1892. 
They lived in Milwaukee, Wis. 

Children : 

1123. i. WILLIAM COURTENAY, bom Oct. 2, 1847; married 

Minnie Chase Gardner. 

1124. ii. MARIA LOUISE, born at Kenosha, June 15, 1850; living 

at Milwaukee, Wis. 

1125. iii. CHARLES GRAHAM, bom at MUwaukee, Wis., Feb. 

19, 1857; married, Jan. 18, 1888, Ida Frances Smith. 

580. REVEREND HORACE GRAHAM HINSDALE' (Hor- 
ace Seymour' Barnabas* Daniel* Barnabas^ Barnabas' 
Roberto, son of Horace Seymour Hinsdale and liis second 
wife, Lucinda Campbell Graham, born in New York City, 
July 4, 1831, married Charlotte E. Howe, who was born 
at Hopewell, N. Y., December 12, 1836, and died at Lake- 
wood, N. J., July 28, 1900, daughter of Reverend Samuel 
Howe, pastor of the church at North Madison, Conn. Mr. 
Hinsdale was graduated at Princeton College, New Jersey, 
and preached successively at Oyster Bay, L. I., N. Y., 
Germantown, Pa., Bridgeport, Conn., and Princeton, N. J. 
In 1896 he gave up his charge at Prmceton, where he had 
preached for eighteen years, and now lives at Lakewood, 
N.J. 

Children : 

1126. i. LOUISE GRAHAM. 

1127. ii. KATHARINE LEWIS. 

582. CATHERINE JULIA HINSDALE ' (Daniel* DanieP Daniel* 
Barnabas' Barnabas' Robert^), daughter of Daniel Hins- 
dale, Jr. and his first wife, Sarah Tiley, born March 22, 
1803, died 1860. She married, July 1, 1823, Christopher 



238 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

C. Mainwaring, born December 14, 1799, died at Windsor, 
Conn., August 4, 1840. 

Children : 

1128. i. SARAH, died about 1857. 

And four others; all died young. 

583. JAMES TILEY HINSDALE' (Daniel" DanieP Daniel* 

Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert^), son of Daniel Hinsdale, Jr. 
and his first wife, Sarah Tiley, born May, 18, 1805, died 
May 9 or 16, 1838. He married, first, at Hartford, Conn., 
April 8, 1829, Louisa Goodwin, who was born April 9, 
1810, and died June 23, 1832. He married, second, at 
Hartford, July 9, 1833, Mary Walker, who was born 
. April 11, 1811, and died February 11, 1887, aged 75. 

Children: 

By his first wife, Louisa Goodwin. 

1129. i. SARAH T., bom Feb. 9, 1830; died at Hartford, Conn., 

Nov. 20, 1853; married Henry Kilburn. 

1130. ii. LOUISA GOODWIN, born at Hartford, Conn., June 3, 

1832; died at Hartford, Sept. 30, 1856; married, first, 
Edward Powers; second, a Mr, Dennison. 

By his second wife, Mary Walker. 

1131. iii. MARY CORNELIA, born at Hartford, Conn., Mar. 21, 

1834; died at Hartford, Sept. 15, 1853. 

1132. iv. JAMES TILEY, born at Hartford, Aug. 7, 1836; mar- 

ried Eliza Chamberlain. ^ 

584. DELIA HINSDALE ' (DanieP DanieP Daniel* Barnabas' Bar- 

nabas^ Robert^), daughter of Daniel Hinsdale, Jr. and his 
first wife, Sarah Tiley, born February 15, 1807, baptized at 
South Church, Hartford, Conn., October 30, 1818, died 
in 1845. She married Theodore Spencer of Hartford. 

Children : 

1133. i. DELIA, bom 1886; married Irving Crandall; had tw« 

daughters, both deceased. 

1134. ii. ABBIE, died Sept.. 1896; married Charles Cheesbro; no 

children. 

591. LUCRETIA LAW HINSDALE' (Daniel* Daniel* Daniel* 
Barnabas' Barnabas' Robert^), davighter of Daniel Hins- 
dale, Jr. and his second wife, Catherine Wolcott, born May 
26, 1821, baptized at South Church, Hartford, Conn., 



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October 21, 1821, died September 24, 1890. She married, 
September 26, 1843, Captain Samuel Strong Hayden 
of Windsor, Comi. He joined the Union Army in the 
Civil War; was Captain of Company C, 25th Regiment 
of Connecticut Vokmteers; was killed at Irish Bend, La., 
April 14, 1863. 

Children : 

1135. i. HARRIS HASKELL, bora Dec. 13, 1844; married Oct. 

31, 1887, Mary Rachel Plympton of Boston, Mass., who 
died Oct. 3, 1894; no children. 

1136. ii. CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH, bora Jan. 21, 1847; mar- 

ried Henry H. HuU. 



592. GEORGE SPENCER HINSDALE ' (DanieP DanieP Dan- 

iel* Barnabas' Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Daniel Hinsdale, 
Jr. and his second wife, Catherine Wolcott, born at New 
Haven, Comi., December 16, 1822, baptized at South 
Church, Hartford, Conn., May 18, 1823, died at San Fran- 
cisco, Cal., May 3, 1900. He married at Scottsburg, Ore., 
August 16, 1854, Catherine Alice Putnam, who died in 
1855. They had no children. Mr. Hinsdale's father 
failed when he was ten years old, and two years later the 
boy went to sea and became a sailor. Going to California 
in 1849, he spent the remainder of his life on the Pacific 
Coast. His married life was spent at Scottsburg, Ore. 
For over fourteen years he was a fixed boarder at the Lick 
House, San Francisco, Cal. He was very methodical in 
his habits. Circumstances made his life a lonely one. 

593. SYLVESTER DEERING HINSDALE^ (DanieP DanieP 

Daniel* Barnabas' Barnabas^ Robert^), son of Daniel Hins- 
dale, Jr. and his second wife, Catherine Wolcott, born July 
6, 1824, baptized at South Church, Hartford, Conn., Au- 
gust, 1824, died at Laramie, Wyo., December 13, 1870. 
He married, June 28, 1860, Frances Burnap, of Scotts- 
burg, Ore., who was born October 27, 1842, and died at 
Santa Barbara, Cal., December 3, 1883. He was engaged 
in the mercantile and shipping business at Scottsburg. 
He died while on his return home from a visit to relatives 
in New York and elsewhere. 



240 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Children, bom at Scottsburg, Ore.: 

1137. i. RICHARD L., bom May 10, 1861; died unmarried at 

San Bernardino, Cal., Aug. 15, 1887. 

1138. ii. HELEN M., born Nov. 17, 1864; married, first, Milton 

S. Huffman; lived at Merced, Cal.; married, second, a 
Mr. Peck, of Merced, Cal. 

1139. iii. OLIVER W., born Oct. 27, 1866; unmarried; drowned 

at Port Gamble, Wash., Mar. 15, 1891. 

1140. iv. OSCAR B., born Sept. 16, 1869; married Evangeline 

Nixon. 

600.f JOANNA DEAN HINSDALE' (Joseph" Joseph^ Joseph* 
Isaac^ Barmabas^ Robert*), daughter of Joseph Hinsdale 
and Joanna Nichols, his wife, born July 15, 1817, died 
April 21, 1855. She was a pupil in Troy Seminary in 1829. 
She married, December 9, 1851, Stephen Fay Robinson 
of Bennington, Vt., born January 17, 1816, died November 
9, 1872. 

Children: 

1141. i. HERBERT FAY, born Apr. 16, 1853; mamed Lizzie 

Elvira Eddy. 

1142. ii. JOANNA HINSDALE, born Apr. 11, 1855; married Oct. 

14, 1896, Caleb Dowmer Austin, of the National Express 
Co., at 141 Broadway, New York; resides at Elizabeth, 
N.J. 

603. MILO HINSDILL ' (Daniel' Joseph^ Joseph* Isaac' Barna- 

bas^ Robert*), son of Daniel Hinsdill and Polly Briggs, his 
wife, born at Bennington, Vt., October 5, 1801, died there 
April 16, 1855. He married Julia Breckenridge, who 
was born in Bennington, August 24, 1805, and died there 
January 26, 1863. 

Children : 

1143. i. LYMAN, married Lucy A. Dart. 

1144. ii. CORNELIA, married Warner Hathaway. 

1145. iii. EDWARD, bom at Bennington, Sept. 3, 1836; married 

Nancy M. Towsley. 

1146. iv. NORMAN, married Abigail Emerson. 

604. ALONZO HINSDILL ' (Daniel" Joseph^ Joseph* Isaac' Bar- 

nabas^ Robert^), son of Daniel Hinsdill and Polly Briggs, 
his wife, born at Bennington, Vt., October 3, 1805, died 
there February 24, 1860. He married at Bennington, 




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HINSDALE GENEALOGY 241 

March 16, 1833, Persis Fisk Henry, who died November 
19, 1865. 

Children, born at Bennington, Vt. : 

1147. i. JAMES HENRY, died Feb. 23, 1845, in infancy. 

1148. ii. HENRY, died Sept. 5, 1847, aged seven months. 

1149. iii. GEORGE, married Fanny Reeves. 

1150. iv. ELIZA, married William J. Toombs. 

605. DANIEL BRIGGS HINSDILL' (Daniel" Joseph^ Joseph* 
Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert*), son of Daniel Hinsdill and Polly 
Briggs, his wife, born at Bennington, Vt., July 27, 1807, 
died at New Orleans, La., December 14, 1843. He married 
at New Orleans, March 15, 1842, Ellen Dempsey. 

607. WILLIAJVI POOL HINSDILL' (Daniel" Joseph^ Joseph* 

Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert*), son of Daniel Hinsdill and PoUy 
Briggs, his wife, born at Bennington, Vt., July 28, 1814, 
died at Wyoming, Kent County, Mich., May 17, 1884, aged 
70, and is buried at Plymouth, Wajnie County, Mich. He 
married at Plymouth, September 19, 1852, Rosamond C. 
Shattuck, who was born at Cohocton, Steuben County, 
N. Y., November 7, 1822, and died at Grand Rapids, 
Mich., August 4, 1858. 

Child: 

1151. i. WILLIAM ALFRED, died in infancy. 

608. MILTON HINSDILL' (DanieP Joseph^ Joseph* Isaac^ 

Barnabas^ Robert*), son of Daniel Hinsdill and PoUy 
Briggs, his wife, born at Bennington, Vt., August 17, 
1816, died at Newark, N. Y., April 9, 1892. He mar- 
ried, at Berlin, N. Y., August 24, 1839, Diana Albina 
Wheeler, born at Berlin. 

Child: 

1152. i. WHEELER, born April 15, 1842; married Martha J. 

Dyke. 

610. ADELIA MARIA HINSDILL' DanieP Joseph^ Joseph* 
Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter of Daniel Hins- 
dill and Polly Briggs, his wife, born at Bennington, 
Vt., April 30, 1820, died at Newark, N. Y., June 9, 1893. 



242 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

She married at Bennington, December 5, 1842, Doctor 
Rowland Thomas of Berlin, N. Y. 

Child: 

1153. 1. BYRON, living at Newark, N. Y. 

614. HELEN HINSDALE TRACY ^ (Hannah Hinsdale" Jo- 
seph^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^), daughter of 
Nathaniel Tracy and Hannah Hinsdale, his wife, born 
at Rome, N. Y., August 16, 1816, died at Newark, 111., July 
30, 1886. She married at Rome, N. Y., March 26, 1835, 
Nathaniel Pease Barnard, who was born at Whites- 
boro, N. Y., March 27, 1806, and died at Newark, 111. 

Children : 

1154. i. ANNA JEANNETTE, born at Whitesboro, N. Y., Jan. 

2, 1836; died at Newark, 111., July 18, 1857. 

1155. ii. HENRIETTA, born Oct. 18,1838; married W. L. WUbur. 

1156. iii. LUCRETIA, bom Dec. 8, 1840; married N. B. Davisson. 

1157. iv. HELEN ALCESTA, bom Oct. 12, 1842; married John W. 

Brown. 

1158. V. NATHANIEL PEASE, bom at Newark, 111., April 4, 

1844; died Aug. 11, 1844. 

1159. vi. ADELIZA, bora at Newark, 111., Feb. 2, 1845; died at 

Fredonia, N. Y., Aug. 3, 1889; married at Newark, 
Nov., 1874, M. K. Booth. 

1160. vii. NATHANIEL PEASE, born at Newark, HI., March 5, 

1847; married at Joliet, 111., Sept. 12, 1874, Jennie 
Williams. 

1161. viii. BERIAH GREEN, bom at Newark, 111., March 27, 

1849; died July 17, 1850. 

1162. ix. GERTRUDE ELOISE, bom at Newark, lU., June 3, 

1851, died July 13, 1852. 

1163. X. LUCY ELOISE, bom at Newark, lU., April 5, 1853. 

1164. xi. NELLIE M., born at Newark, lU., May 10, 1857. 

1165. xii. NINA MAUD, born June 12, 1859; married Charles S. 

Wirick. 

622. EMELINE HINSDILL^ (Stephen^ Joseph' Joseph^ Isaac^ 
Barnabas^ Robert^), daughter of Deacon Stephen Hins- 
dale and Hannah Edgerton, his wife, born at Ben- 
nington, Vt., October 19, 1807, died at Grand Rapids, 
Mich., January 6, 1867. She married at Bennington, 
April 26, 1831, Reverend James Ballard, who was born 
at Charlemont, Mass., April 20, 1805, and died at Grand 
Rapids, Mich., January 7, 1881, son of William Ballard 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 243 

and Elizabeth Whitney, his wife. He was graduated at 
WiUiams College, Mass., in 1828. For about ten years he 
was teacher of a classical seminary at Bennington. In 
1837, he removed with his family to Grand Rapids, Mich., 
and was the pastor of the First Congregational Church 
there for many years, and was also engaged in teaching. 
He was a man of remarkable force of character and a fine 
scholar. She was a woman of great culture, and refined 
tastes — a model wife and mother. 

Children : 

1166. i. STEPHEN HINSDILL, (Captain), bom July 19, 1836; 

married Sarah S. Nelson. 

1167. ii. ELIZABETH WHITNEY, bom July 22, 1841; married 

Colonel Henry E. Thompson. 

1168. iii. MARGARETTE LUCRETIA, bom July 2, 1847; mar- 

ried Major Malcolm M. Moore. 

626. LUCRETIA EDGERTON HINSDALE ' (Stephen^ Joseph^ 
Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert*), daughter of Deacon 
Stephen Hinsdale and Hannah Edgerton, his wife, born 
at Bennington, August 4, 1817, married at Bennington, 
May 18, 1837, Aaron Lewis Hubbell, born April 29, 
1811, died December 4, 1869, who was the tenth and 
youngest child, and second son to reach maturity, of 
Lieutenant Aaron Hubbell, who was one of the founders 
of Bennington, born at Old Stratford, Conn., Sept. 14, 
1757, married, Jime 27, 1782, Sarah Dewey, born 1767, 
died April 18, 1797, daughter of Captain Elijah Dewey, 
who was son of Reverend Jedediah Dewey. The follow- 
ing is from the pen of Lieutenant Aaron Hubbell depict- 
ing a scene immediately preceding the Benning-ton Battle, 
and when the uTiter was about twenty years of age and 
a member of Captain Samuel Robinson's company of 
Vermont Militia. 

"To begin at the beginning: I was mowing with Moses 
Hinsdale, August 13, 1777. At about three o'clock in the 
afternoon, Joseph Hinsdale came in great haste, and told 
us that the British were on their march to Bennington, 
that we must leave our work immediately and assist him 
in moving his family and effects to some other place. We 
did so, and on our way, we met Capt. Samuel Robinson 



244 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

who had command of a company of militia. He told us 
that we must be in Bennington the next morning before 
sum'ise. We were there at the time mentioned. Gen. Stark's 
troops were coming in at the same time. The 14th, I 
started with Captain's Robinson's company for the battle, 
as I supposed, but it did not take place until the 16th. We 
marched to the place where David Henry now lives and 
then halted, and were ordered to fell trees to stop the 
artillery of the enemy. I struck the first blow, and brought 
down the first tree to effect that object. Our next halt 
was at the road which leads from North Bennington where 
we again felled trees and made our stand for other troops 
to come up and they came in goodly numbers. General 
Stark and his troops with Captain Robinson's company 
were ordered to hold ourselves — every man — in readiness 
to go to battle the next morning, the 15th, which proved 
to be a very rainy day. This was a most providential 
circumstance for us, as we were greatly strengthened by 
a handsome acquisition to oiu* numbers." 

Here the pen was dropped, probably to be taken up 
later on, but unfortunately this was never done. 

Children : 

1169. i. ALBERT CONKLIN, born March 10, 1839; married in 

Bennington, Vt., Julia Montague. 

1170. ii. ROBERT LEWIS, bom March 31, 1841; died October 

24, 1857. 

1171. iii. CATHERINE JEANNETTE, bom June 16, 1843; un- 

married; lives at Bennington. 

628. STEPHEN BINGHAM HINSDALE^ (Stephen^ Joseph ^ 
Joseph^ Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert*), son of Deacon Stephen 
Hinsdale and Hannah Edgerton, his wife, born at Ben_ 
nington, Vt., April 29, 1822, died at Grand Rapids, Mich., 
March 15, 1852; married, June 26, 1845, Sarah Ann 

MOSHER. 

Children : 

1172. i. CLARENCE EDGERTON, bom Aug. 17, 1846; died 

April, 1856. 

1173. ii, LUCIAN, bom July 4, 1848. 

1174. iii, DENNIS LOCKE, bom October 6, 1850. 

1175. iv. EMELINE JEANNETTE, bom September 10, 1852. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 245 

629 HANNAH JEANNETTE HINSDILL' (Stephen" Joseph^ 
Joseph^ Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^), daughter of Deacon 
Stephen Hinsdill and Hannah Edgerton, his wife, born at 
Bennington, Vt., January 24, 1824, died at Grand Rapids, 
Mich., March 12, 1905, married at Grand Rapids, October 
14, 1844, Honorable Henry Seymour, State Senator 
of Michigan, who was born at Camillus, N. Y., Decem- 
ber 16, 1822, and died at Paris, Kent County, Mich., 
January 8, 1877. He removed to Grand Rapids from 
Onondaga County, N. Y., in 1842, and was the first teacher 
of an academic school in Grand Rapids. He was a man of 
mild manners and a gentle spirit. In after life he engaged 
in mercantile pursuits and served a term each as Repre- 
sentative and as Senator in the Legislature of Michigan. 

From the "Grand Rapids Herald," March 14, 1905: 

"Mrs. Jeannette Seymoiu" died at the home of her daugh- 
ter, Mrs. W. Millard Palmer, No. 21 Paris avenue, Sunday 
day afternoon, after an illness of about eight weeks. She 
leaves seven children: Mrs. W. Millard Palmer, George H. 
Seymour of the George H. Seymour company, John A. 
A. Seymour, cashier of the Fourth National Bank; Mrs. 
R. H. Stevens of Monterey, Cal. ; Glenn E. Seymour of 
Kansas City, Mo.; Charles K. Seymour of Beaumont, 
Texas, and Henry Seymour of Washington, D. C. 

"an old settler. 
"Mrs. Seymour was born at Bennington, Vt., January 
24, 1824, and came to Grand Rapids in 1837. In 1844 
she was married to Henry Seymour. Many of the early 
years of her married Ufe were spent on the Seymour farm 
in Paris township, and later the family moved in to the 
city. Mrs. Seymour was one of the oldest members of 
the Park Congregational church, and until the last few 
years of her hfe, when her health failed, she was active in 
the work of the church. She was also for many years an 
active member of the Ladies' Literary club. In her yoimger 
days Mrs. Seymour was one of the prominent singers of 
Grand Rapids, which was then a village. She was one of 
the oldest residents of the city, having hved here and in 
the vicinity sixty-seven years. 



246 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

"an idol of her children. 
"She was endowed with an excellent mind and she re- 
tained her interest in affairs up to the time of her death. 
No woman wore with more dignity and love the name of 
mother than Mrs. Seymour. She was the idol of her large 
family of children and her declining years were blessed 
with the protecting love of her sons and daughters. She 
was also beloved by a large circle of friends." 

Children : 

1176. i. FRANK HENRY, born Oct. 25, 1845; married NeUie 

F. Thomas. 

1177. ii. MARY JEANNETTE, bom June 4, 1848; married Hor- 

ace Gaylord Holt. 

1178. iii. GLENN EDGERTON, bom at Paris, Mich., Aug. 1, 

1850; married twice. 

1179. iv. GEORGE HINSDILL, bom May 4, 1853; married Alice 

Porter. 

1180. V. LUCRETIA HUBBELL, bom Oct. 13, 1856; married 

Doctor Ransom Humphrey Stevens. 

1181. vi. CHARLES KENDALL, bora Dec. 24, 1858; married 

Anna Maria Rich. 

1182. vii. HENRY, born May 16, 1861; married Sally Mabel 

Randall. 

1183. viii. JEANNETTE HINSDILL, bora Feb. 28, 1863; mar- 

ried Walter Millard Palmer. 

1184. ix. JOHN ADDISON, bora at Paris, Mich., May 25, 1866; 

unmarried; lives at Grand Rapids, Mich. 

630. GERALDINE HUTCHINSON HINSDALE' (Hiram« Joseph^ 
Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert*), daughter of Hiram 
Hinsdill and Roxalany Walbridge, his wife, born at 
Bennington, Vt., September 1, 1819, died at Grand 
Rapids, Mich., April 24, 1898. She married at Grand 
Rapids, Mich., May 31, 1848, Sylvester Combes, of Tal- 
mage, Ottawa County, Mich., where they resided until 
his death, July 19, 1879. He was a farmer. 

From a newspaper, April 25, 1898: 
"Yesterday afternoon at 1:15 Mrs. Geraldine Hinsdale 
Combes, aged 78 years, died at the home of her daughter, 
Mrs. H. D. Brown, No. 95 Fomitain street. She was an 
old settler in Grand Rapids, and came here from Ben- 
nington, Vt., where she was born in 1820. She came to 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 247 

Grand Rapids in 1836 and is the last of the charter mem- 
bers of the old First Congregational Church, which is now 
the Park Church. The deceased had five children living. 
The funeral will be held from the house to-morrow morn- 
ing at 10 o'clock, and Dr. Bradley, pastor of the Park 
Congregational Church, will officiate. The remains will 
be bured at Lamont, where she lived for some time during 
the early part of her residence in the West." 

From Grand Rapids {Mich.) Herald: 

"Considerable interest is being manifested by the con- 
gregationalists in the sixtieth anniversary of Park Con- 
gregational Church, to be celebrated to-morrow. 

'' Sixty years ago yesterday what is now known as the 
Park or First Congregational Church was organized with 
22 members by the Rev. M. Woodbury of Kalamazoo. 
It was organized as a Presbjd^erian Church, and three years 
later voted to become Congregational. Of those 22, all 
have passed away except Mrs. Geraldine Combes, who 
resides on Lake street. Up to the present time 1,951 
members have united with the church, the present mem- 
bership being 872. Park Church is the oldest Protestant 
organization in Grand Rapids, and has seen the growth 
of the city from its insignificant beginnings, and in that 
growth, has borne a worthy part. Six churches, offshoots, 
with 750 members, located in the first, fifth, sixth, eleventh 
and twelfth wards indicate something of the denomina- 
tional strength, while mission schools are carried on in the 
fourth and fifth wards. The total Sunday school enroll- 
ment of Park Church and its missions is 1,100, and the 
total Smiday school enrollment in the city over 2,000, 
The cost of maintaining the mother church and its mis- 
sions is in the neighborhood of $8,500 per year, while the 
benevolences last year were $9,500 in addition. The an- 
niversary services will be held to-morrow, the pastor, the 
Rev. Dan F. Bradley, preaching a sermon on 'What the 
Chiu"ch has Stood For.' In the Sunday school, former 
superintendents, .among whom L. E. Patten and Dr. James 
Gallup had long periods of successful service, will make 
addresses, and at 5 o'clock a layman's service, presided 
over by Gen. B. M. Cutcheon, will be addressed by H. J. 



248 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Hollister on the subject, 'Oiir Pastors;' Mrs. S. L. Withey 
on 'The Beginnings of Things/ and the Rev. I. P. Powell 
on 'The Work of the Young People.' Greetings will be 
offered by laymen from the other Congregational church. 
The public generally is invited." 

Children, born at Talmage or Lamont, Ottawa Co. Mich.: 

1185. i. HIRAM HINSDILL, bom Sept. 15, 1850; married twice. 

1186. ii. LEWIS DUDLEY, born July 23, 1855; married Mary 

Teresa Hedges. 

1187. iii. ALICE ALMIRA, bom July 6, 1857; umnarried; lives 

at Grand Rapids, Mich. 

1188. iv. NELLIE EMELINE, bom Sept. 13, 1859; umnarried; 

lives at Grand Rapids. 

1189. V. MARY ELIZA, bom Apr. 26, 1862; married, Jan. 24, 

1893, Henry D. Brown of Grand Rapids, Mich.; they 
are now (1904) living there; no children. 

631. ALTHEA FAY HINSDALE' (Hiram" Joseph' Joseph* 
Isaac^ Barnabas" Robert^), daughter of Hiram Hinsdill 
and Roxalany Walbridge, his wife, born at Ithaca, N. 
Y., April 11, 1821; died at Monkton, Vt., November 
24, 1853. She married at Grand Rapids, Mich., June 30, 
1845, Lewis Dennison Dean, (No. 758), born October 
17, 1820, at Monkton, Vt. He was drowned in Lake Mich- 
igan, near Manistee, Mich., November 26, 1850. 
They had two children. (See Nos. 1379 and 1380). 

632.- MARY ANN HINSDALE' (Hiram« Joseph'^ Joseph* Isaac^ 
Barnabas^ Robert^), daughter of Hiram Hinsdill and 
Roxalany Walbridge, his wife, born at Shaftsbury, Vt., 
May 27, 1824, died at Grand Rapids, Mich., October 30, 
1882. She married at Grand Rapids, Mich., December 
23, 1839, Charles Philo Calkins, born January 24, 1803; 
died September 3, 1890. Mr. Calkins was a lawyer, and 
practiced his profession for many years with success at 
Grand Rapids. 

From a newspaper, October 30, 1882. 

"Obituary. Mrs. Charles P. Calkins, whose death 
is announced to-day, was one of the pioneers of this place. 
She was a daughter of Hiram Hinsdale, the first landlord 
of the National Hotel which stood where the Morton House 
now is, well remembered by those of the early settlers 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 249 

who still survive. She was married in 1839, and was 
always a favorite, greatly beloved by a wide circle of 
friends — a model wife, a noble mother, an excellent neigh- 
bor, a charitable, sympathizing Christian woman. In the 
memory of all who knew her she will be called blessed. 
She leaves besides her husband, who is nearly eighty years 
of age, four sons and three daughters — Charles W., Henry 
W., William H., George J., Mrs. J. C. Herkner and Misses 
Anna R. and Cora; all estimable citizens, who have the 
sympathies of the entire community in their bereavement." 

Children, born at Grand Rapids, Mich. : 

1190. i. CHARLES WALBRIDGE, (Colonel), born June 19, 

1842; married Mary L. Scovel. 

1191. ii. CLARA L., bom Feb., 24, 1844; married Colonel Joseph 

C. Herkner. 

1192. iii. MARY E., born June 8, 1846; died at Grand Rapids, 

Aug. 12, 1850. 

1193. iv. HENRY W., bom Sept. 10, 1848; unmarried; lives at 

Omaha, Neb. 

1194. V. WILLIAM H., born Sept. 10, 1848; married twice. 

1195. vi. ANNA R., born Dec. 14, 1852; unmarried; lives at Grand 

Rapids, Mich. 

1196. vii. CORA, born Oct. 18, 1861; married J. Wilfred Thomp- 

son. 

1197. viii. GEORGE JONES bom Jan. 17, 1864; married twice. 

633. HENRY WALBRIDGE HINSDALE' (Hiram^ Joseph^ 
Joseph^ Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^), son of Hiram Hinsdill 
and Roxalany Walbridge, his wife, born at Ben- 
nington, Vt., August 23, 1825, was married at Chicago, 
111., by Rev. Cornelius E. Swope, rector of Grace Episcopal 
Church, April 19, 1852, to Eliza Jane Chatfield, daugh- 
ter of John Chatfield and Mary Ann Moore, his wife, of 
Batavia, N. Y. At twenty years of age, in August, 1845, 
he went from Grand Rapids, Mich., to Chicago, and ob- 
tained employment as porter in the wholesale and retail 
grocery store of J. H. Durham. In five years, by close 
application and faithfulness, he had mastered the details 
of the business and in the spring of 1850, in connection 
with William R. Gould, later of the firm of Gould Bros., 
purchased the business of Mr. Durham, and formed a 
partnership under the name of Hinsdale & Gould. At 
the end of the year they were joined by B. F. Hadduck, 



250 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

the firm becoming Hinsdale, Gould & Hadduck. In six 
months Mr. Hinsdale withdrew from the concern and be- 
came a partner of his former employer, Mr. Dm-ham, who 
had resumed business in South Water street. The con- 
cern imder the style of J. H. Durham & Co. did a business 
of $300,000 the first year. For five years the partner- 
ship continued and the business was very prosperous, 
being known throughout the Northwest. At the end of 
that time Mr. Durham withdrew from active manage- 
ment, selling out to J, P. Babcock. The firm became 
Hinsdale & Babcock, and so continued until January, 
1860, when Mr. Babcock withdrew. During these years, 
the business had increased with wonderful strides. Mr. 
Hinsdale now took into partnership an employee, S. 
Sibley, the firm becoming H. W. Hinsdale & Co., with a 
capital o $50,000. Their yearly sales amounted to $500, 
000. This large business reflected the intellect, expe- 
rience and energy of Mr. Hinsdale. He erected a hand- 
some building on the corner of South Water and River 
Streets, which was occupied by his concern, and in which 
his groceries were stored. In January, 1864, William F. 
Endicott purchased an interest in the firm, which became 
Hinsdale, Sibley & Endicott, with a capital of $250,000. 
Its trade extended into the far West, and the business 
amomited to $2,000,000 in 1866. Mr. Hinsdale thus ac- 
cumulated a fortune, but the great Chicago Fire in 1871 
swept away the bulk of his fortune, which he was after- 
wards never able to regain. He was a most earnest, 
active, honorable business man, and won high esteem 
from all with whom he dealt, for his business quahties^ 
among which were the strictest integrity and capacity 
for hard work. He took an active interest in charitable 
and humane projects, and his generosity is well known. 
The town of Hinsdale, 111., is named for him. Mr. and 
I Mrs. Hinsdale are now residing at Evanston, 111. They 

celebrated the golden anniversary of their wedding on 
April 19, 1902. Many beautiful gifts were received. 
Relatives and friends from Illinois and Michigan were 
present and the day was a memorable one. An original 
poem in honor of the occasion was read by a niece, Miss 
Ellen Dean of Grand Rapids, Mich. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 251 

Children : 

1198. i. HENRY KERR, bom Apr. 29, 1853; married Emma 

Burgard. 

1199. ii. FRED HIBBARD, bom at Chicago, Jan. 31, 1856; died 

Oct. 31, 1857. 

1200. iii. GEORGE, bom at Chicago, Nov. 7, 1859; aied July 3, 

1860. 

1201. iv. DUDLEY, bom at Chicago, June 24, 1861 ; died at Grand 

Rapids, Mich., Dec. 31, 1875; accidentally shot by a 
playmate. 

1202. V. CHARLOTTE LOUISA, bom Mar. 12, 1865; married 

Alvin B. Moseley. 

1203. vi. BENJAMIN SHERMAN, bom at Grand Rapids, Mich., 

Mar. 26. 1874. 

634. ALMIRA SELDEN HINSDALE ' (Hiram' Joseph' Joseph* 
Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^), daughter of Hiram Hinsdill 
and Roxalany Walbridge, his wife, born at Utica, 
N. Y., December 28, 1828, died at Denver, Colo., 
October 11, 1901. She married at Grand Rapids, Mich., 
September 5, 1853, George F. Jones, who was born at 
Burlington, Vt., October 27, 1822, and died at Brecken- 
ridge, Colo., September 18, 1896. He crossed the plains 
to California in 1850, and established himself as a merchant 
at Sacramento. After his marriage at Grand Rapids, he 
returned with his wife to California, and engaged in mer- 
cantile business at Placerville, where he was a successful 
business man, and was twice elected mayor of that place. 
In 1862, he removed to Virginia City, Nev., where he en- 
gaged in business, became a leading citizen, and was 
also elected mayor. In 1872, he removed to Breck- 
enridge, Colo., and engaged in mining. With the excep- 
tion of a few years spent in Denver and in Douglas Comity, 
Colo., he lived at Breckenridge until his death, which was 
caused by paralysis of the brain following an attack of 
grippe. He was a man of good business capacity, and 
was very popular, having hosts of friends. He was thor- 
oughly imbued with western ideas and habits, and was 
foremost to advocate any cause promoting Western inter- 
ests. His wife was for several years a teacher in the pub- 
lic schools of Grand Rapids, Mich., and after her marriage, 
in 1853, crossed the plains with her husband in an emi- 
grant train. They had no children. 



252 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

635. ELLEN EDGERTON HINSDALE' (Hiram' Joseph' Jo- 
seph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert'), daughter of Hiram 
HinsdiU and Roxalany Walbridge, his wife, born at Ben- 
nington, Vt., August 19, 1832, married at Grand Rapids, 
Mich., January 1, 1856, Frank Shattuck of Plymouth, 
Mich., a farmer. He was born at Cohocton, Steuben 
County, N. Y., September 17, 1821, and died at Plymouth, 
Mich., September 2, 1889. 

Children, born at Plymouth, Mich.: 

1204. i. KATE, bom Oct. 4, 1856; died 1862. 

1205. ii. FRANK, bom May 7, 1863; married. 

1206. iii. HENRY SANFORD, bom Oct. 4, 1870; married Elinor 

Birch. 

637. HONORABLE SANFORD CHARLES HINSDALE, B. 
L. T.' (Hiram^ Joseph' Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas" Robert^) 
son of Hiram HinsdiU and Roxalany Walbridge, 
his wife, born at Grand Rapids, Mich., August 14, 
1839; married at Grand Rapids, October 24, 1872, 
Charlotte Chatfield, the 3^oungest child of John Chat- 
field and Mary Ann Moore, his wife, of Batavia, N. Y., 
and sister of Eliza Jane Chatfield, wife of Henry W. Hins- 
dale. He was graduated at Kalamazoo College, Kalama- 
zoo, Mich., in 1863. In 1865, he took the degree of 
Bachelor of Laws at Harvard Law School, Cam- 
bridge, Mass., and was admitted to the Illinois Bar at 
Springfield, 111., January 6, 1866. In the spring of that 
year he removed to Omaha, Neb., where he practiced 
his profession of law for two years. He then returned 
to Chicago, where he resumed the practice of his profes- 
sion, and was Justice of the Peace in that city 1871-1875. 
In 1876 he removed to Grand Rapids, Mich., where he 
was engaged in the practice of law until the autumn of 
1881, when becoming interested in the iron mines of Lake 
Superior, he removed to Negaunee, Mich., where he lived 
during the years 1882 and 1883, until in November of the 
latter year, he removed to Denver, Colo., where he re- 
sumed the practice of his profession, and in September, 
1891, was appointed by the United States Circuit Court 
for the District of Colorado, U. S. Circuit Court Commis- 
sioner for the District of Colorado, and when, by Act of 




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No. C.37 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 253 

Congress of May 28, 1896, that office was made to expire 
on June 30, 1897, he was immediately re-appointed U. S. 
Commissioner mider the new Act, which position he now 
holds. He is also, by appointment of said U. S. Circuit 
Court, Master and Examiner of that Coiut. He has had 
no children. 

To the initiative taken by Mr. Hinsdale is due the com- 
pilation of this genealogy, and thanks should be extended 
to him by all descendants of Robert Hinsdale. With 
that modesty for which he is noted among all his ac- 
quaintances, he says: "The work was suggested to, and 
urged upon me by Mrs. Mary E. Truax of Crawfordsville, 
Ind. My moments of leisure were devoted to it for years, 
but finally, realizing that I could not bring it to pubhca- 
tion, I turned over all my data to the late Herbert C. 
Andrews, to whom the merit belongs of the arrangement, 
etc. With me it has been a labor of love, and I never 
expected any remuneration. I am now happy in the con- 
fident expectation that the work is brought to the verge 
of publication. If the book meets the approval of the 
members of my family, I am content." 

The following sketch is from " Universities and Their 
Sons." (R. Hemdon Company, Boston, 1900, Vol. IV., 
p. 7.) 

"Hinsdale, Sanford Charles. Harvard LL. B. — 1865. 

"Born in Grand Rapids, Mich., 1839; graduated Kala- 
mazoo (Mich.) College, 1863; Harvard Law School, 1865; 
admitted to the Bar, 1866, and practiced in Omaha two 
years; subsequently in Chicago, 111., Grand Rapids and 
Negaunee, Mich.; removed to Denver, Col., 1883; 
U. S. Circuit Court Commissioner District of Col. since 
1891. 

"Sanford Charles Hinsdale, Lawyer, United States Cir- 
cuit Court Commissioner for the District of Colorado, was 
born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, August 14, 1839, the son 
of Hiram and Roxalany (Walbridge) Hinsdale. The titu- 
lar founders of the town of Hinsdale, Massachusetts, and 
Hinsdale, New Hampshire, were his ancestors, the first 
of whom in this country was Robert Hinsdale, one of the 
original settlers of Dedham, Massachusetts, who joined 



254 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston 
in 1645 and was afterwards among the founders of Medfield 
and Deerfield. He and his three sons served in King 
Philip's war and all were killed at the battle of Bloody 
Brook, near Deerfield, September 18, 1675. Joseph Hins- 
dale, who was born in Canaan, Connecticut, 1747, served 
in the Revolutionary War as an Ensign in Captain Samuel 
Robinson's Company of Militia and participated in the 
battle of Bennington. His death occurred August 18, 1800. 
On October 15, 1772, he married Hannah Bingham, and 
his son, Hiram Hinsdale, Sanford C. Hinsdale's father who 
was born in Bennington, Vermont, December 12, 1788, 
and died at Plymouth, Mich., July 1, 1871, was married 
June 11, 1818, to Roxalany Walbridge. She was born 
in Norwich, Connecticut August 6, 1793, daughter of Gus- 
tavus and Anna (Sanford) Walbridge, both of Norwich, 
and she died at Grand Rapids, Mich., June 8, 1845. The 
subject of this sketch attended the common and high 
schools of Grand Rapids, was graduated from the Kala- 
mazoo (Michigan) College in 1863, and from the Harvard 
Law School with the decree of Bachelor of Laws in 1865. 
Admitted to the Bar in Springfield, 111., in 1866, and to 
the courts of Nebraska the same year, he practiced in 
Omaha some two years, at the expiration of which time 
he went to Chicago, where he resided about eight years, 
and was a Justice of the Peace there from 1871 to 1875. 
From 1876 to 1881 he practised in his native city, and the 
succeeding two years were spent in Negaunee, Marquette 
county, Michigan, from which town he removed to Denver, 
Col., in the autumn of 1883. In September, 1891, he was 
appointed United States Circuit Court Commissioner and 
Master and Examiner of the Federal Courts for the Dis- 
trict of Colorado, offices which he still holds. His pro- 
fessional career has been attended with satisfactory re- 
sults, and as a public official his record is honorable both 
to himself and his adopted state. Mr. Hinsdale was 
largely instrumental in organizing the Society of the Sons 
of the Revolution in Colorado. At Grand Rapids, October 
24, 1872, he married Charlotte, daughter of John and 
Mary Ann (Moore) Chatfield, of Batavia, N. Y. They 
have no children." 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 255 

From Rocky Mountain Herald, January 13, 1894: 
"United States Commissioner S. C. Hinsdale was born 
in Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1839. His early education 
was acquired in the public schools and academies of Grand 
Rapids, from which he went to Kalamazoo College, grad- 
uating therefrom in 1864. He was admitted to the prac- 
tice of law by the Illinois supreme court in 1865, and im- 
mediately opened an office in Chicago, where he remained 
in practice mitil 1871, dm'ing part of which time he was 
a partner of Emory A. Storrs, and was associated with all 
of the leading lights of the Chicago bar, many of whom 
have since risen to national prominence. In 1871 he was 
appointed by the governor of his state Justice of the Peace 
for South Chicago, and during the four years of his in- 
cumbency tried 14,000 cases. In 1875 he recommenced 
his practice, but in the following year was called back to 
Grand Rapids to settle a large estate, in which duty he 
was engaged until the fall of 1881, when, having some 
interests in the iron regions, he went to the Lake Superior 
country, settling at Negaunee, near Marquette, and remam- 
ing there until the fall of 1883, when he came to Denver 
and opened an office. He practiced law successfully in 
this city imtil September, 1891, when he was appointed 
by the United States Circuit Court, United States Commis- 
sioner and master and examiner in chancery. Mr. Hins- 
dale is a member of the Association of the Sons of the 
Revolution, springing from a New England family which 
traces its descent from father to son back to 1642, only 
twenty-two years after the landing of the Pilgrims at 
Plymouth Rock. From these ancestors he undoubtedly 
obtained the scholarly habits which have distinguished 
him during his life. He has a passionate love for Greek 
literature, reading the originals as easily as he reads Eng- 
ish, and during the past thirty years not a single day has 
passed without an indulgence in his favorite studv. and a 
readmg of one or the other of the great authors of Greece 
in the original. Mr. Hinsdale, both professionally and 
socially, is held in high esteem by his associates, and in his 
intercourse with his fellowmen is a genial, entertaining 
gentleman, while professionally he stands in the front 
rank." 



256 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

From the Denver (Colo.) Post, December. 25, 1898 

"Sanford C. Hinsdale, a United States commissioner of 
the district of Colorado, and one of the best Greek scholars 
in the country, received his love for Greek and his admira- 
tion of Plato on Christmas tide thirty-eight years ago. 
Mr. Hinsdale has met many great men in his time, but 
this recollection of 1860 is still fresh in his mind. 

" 'I was in Kalamazoo, Mich., studying at the Baptist 
College there and living in the family of my cousin, Lucinda 
Hinsdale Stone, the wife of the president of the college. 
And, by the way, IVIrs. Stone is still living. She is 84 
years of age, and with Julia Ward Howe, was one of the 
vice-presidents of the Confederated Woman's clubs. She 
organized the Ladies' Library Club in the West. 

" 'Mrs. Stone has often referred to that December, with 
the statement, "We entertained an angel unawares." It 
is true, for it was Ralph Waldo Emerson, and he was on 
first lecture toiu throughout the comitry. 

" 'Being a guest of my cousin, I was, of course, invited 
to the holiday dmner at which Emerson was the honored 
guest. The long table was filled with gray-haired profes- 
sors. I felt somewhat out of place. I was the yomigest 
there and in the presence of the great man I felt that I 
would be embarrassed because of my youth. 

"'Emerson had visited our Greek recitation that after- 
noon and evidently recognized me as one of the class 
when he entered the room. He seated himself, to my 
secret delight and astonishment, beside me at the table, 
preferring to sit next to a bashful student, with whom he 
conversed during most of the meal, paymg very little at- 
tention to the grave professors who sat at the same table. 
The conversation of the great man related almost entirely 
to Greek. He dwelt upon the divine Plato and told me 
how to understand him. 

" ' A great impetus was then and there given me in my 
studies and life as a student and a forward movement was 
begun which has lasted until the present time. 

"'I have read in the original and studied with delight 
all the writings extant of the great philosopher, but the 
works of the Sage of Concord hold a place with me sec- 
ond to none. He is the Plato of the nmeteenth century; 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 257 

in himself all the valuable aesthetic thought that has been 
evolved since the days of the immortal Greek, and along 
his lines, is set forth as it appears to a man of America. 

'"I never saw Emerson again. We parted at the end 
of the meal with a warm hand-clasp. 

"'That hour I spent with him was the turning point 
of my life. It opened a vista to me which was faint, 
indeed, before, and in which I have stolen many an hour's 
enjoyment since.' " 

640. ELOISE ELECTA GALUSHA' (Electa Hinsdale« Joseph^ 
Joseph* Isaac ^ Barnabas^ Robert 0, daughter of Jonas 
Galusha and Electa Hinsdale, his wife, born at Shafts- 
bury, Vt., August 19, 1815, died at Bloomington, lU., 
January 17, 1875. She married at Rochester, N. Y., 
Nathan Brittan of Rochester, who died at Adrian, 
Mich., January, 1872. 

Children : 

1207. i ELOISE RUGGLES, married at Chicago, 111., Edward 

K. Cresey; they have one son, Edward K. Cresey. 

1208. ii. GERTRUDE ELECTA, unmarried; died 1885, at Kan- 

kakee, m. 

1209. iii. ALBERT NATHAN, married and has one daughter, 

Eloise; he lives in Chicago, 111., and his business address 
is 103 State street. 

1210. iv. FLORA JANETTE, married; living. 

641. JOSEPH HINSDALE GALUSHA^ (Electa Hins- 
dale® Joseph' Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^), son of 
Jonas Galusha and Electa Hinsdale, his wife, born at 
Shaftsbury, Vt., November 1, 1817, died at Hudson, 
Mich., November, 1864; married, March, 1849, at Lyons, 
N. Y., Catherine Sophia Morris. 

Children : 

1211. i. WALTER JONAS, bom Aug. 19, 1850; died Nov., 1895; 

unmarried. 

1212. ii. LILLA AUGUSTA, bom at Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 2, 1856; 

unmarried. 

1213. iii. LIZZIE LIVINGSTON, bom at Hudson, Mich., Apr., 

1861; unmarried. 

Four other children, who all died in infancy. 



258 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

642. ORSON BINGHAM GALUSHA^ (Electa Hinsdale" Joseph^ 
Joseph* Isaac ^ Barnabas^ Robert^), son of Jonas Galusha 
and Electa Hinsdale, his wife, born at Shaftsbury, Vt., 
December 2, 1819, died at Peoria, 111., June 15, 1898. 
He was married at Kalamazoo, Mich., March 9, 1843, 
by Rev. 0. P. Hoyt, to his second cousin, Mary Jane 
Hinsdale (No. 738), born at Hinesburg, Vt., February 
7, 1820, daughter of Judge ]\Iitchell Hmsdale and Dorothy 
Weed, his wife. In the spring of 1836, he removed to 
Rochester, N. Y., and from there to Grand Rapids, Mich., 
in 1839, and in June, 1849, to Lisbon, 111., and thence to 
North Peoria, 111. He was a thorough and successful farmer, 
and succeeded in the nursery business, and became widely 
known in Illinois as a scientific horticulturist. He was 
one of the founders of the Illinois State University at 
Champaign, and a member of the original board of trustees. 
He was for many years secretary of the Illinois State 
Horticultural Association. 

From Peoria {III.) Daily Herald, June 16, 1898: 

"0. B. Galusha, one of the founders of the IDinois State 
University at Champaign, and a member of the original 
board of trustees, died last evening at the home of his 
daughter, Mrs. WiUiam Hawley Smith, No. 1919 KJnoxville 
avenue. 

"Mr. Galusha was 78 years of age, and up to Tuesday 
evening had been in fair health. He was seized with an 
attack of acute inflammation of the stomach and passed 
away yesterday evening at 7 o'clock. 

"Mr. Galusha was well known in the city, especially 
among the older residents and the local scientists. He 
was highly esteemed by members of the Scientific associa- 
tion and his addresses on scientific matters were consid- 
ered able and of a progressive character. He was a student, 
a thorough reader and spent most of his time with his 
library. 

"For many years he was secretary of the Illinois State 
Horticultural association. He was well known over the 
state as a horticulturist. When the question of a univer- 
sity was broached Mr. Galusha was one of the first to 
identify himself with the movement. His services were 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 259 

so valuable in the preparatory work that he was retained 
as a member of the board of trustees and served for years. 
"He was born in Vermont, and forty-five years ago 
moved to Illinois, first settling at Lisbon. T^ater he moved 
to Morris. He came to Peoria fourteen years ago, and 
has since resided with his daughter. Mrs. William Haw- 
ley Smith, wife of the reader and writer, is his only daugh- 
ter. His widow is in her seventy-eighth year." 

Children : 

1214. i. ARTHUR JONAS, bom Jan. 29, 1844; died Apr. 14, 

1848. 

1215. ii. ELLEN HINSDALE, bom Oct. 24, 1849; married Wil- 

liam Hawley Smith. 

643. MILTON HARVEY BOARDMAN' (EUsha Boardman* 

Lydia Hinsdale^ Joseph^ Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^), 
son of Captain Elisha Boardman and Hannah Pratt, his 
wife, born at Morristown, Vt., September 24, 1799; died 
August 21, 1834. He married May 18, 1823, Sophia 
Haskins of Morristown. He was an excellent man, be- 
loved by all who knew him. 

Children : 

1216. i. HARVEY COLEMAN, bom Mar. 11, 1824; married 

Laura M. Spaulding. 

1217. ii. MILTON ELISHA, bom Feb. 15, 1827; died July 9, 

1842. 

644. ALFRED C. BOARDMAN' (Elisha Boardman" Lydia 

Hinsdale^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^), son of 
Captain Elisha Boardman and Hannah Pratt, his wife, 
born at Morristown, Vt., in 1801; died there, December 
11, 1871. He married in 1825, Mary Holcomb. He 
was for many years Town Clerk of Morristown. 

Child: 

1218. i. AUGUSTA, bom in 1826; married a Mr. Lease. 

645. MARCIA PRATT BOARDMAN' (Elisha Boardman' 

Lydia Hinsdale^ Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert*), 
daughter of Captain Ehsha Boardman and Hannah Pratt, 
his wife, born at Morristown, Vt., January 3, 1807; died 
August 3, 1852. She married in 1833, Horace Hazen. 



260 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Children : 

1219. i. HARRIET. 

1220. ii. OSCAR C, bom Nov. 29, 1834; married Mary Niles. 

650. HONORABLE ALMOND BOARDMAN' (Ozias Board 

man® Lydia Hinsdale^ Joseph^ Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^), 
son of Ozias Boardman, Jr. and Lydia Whitney, 
his wife, born at Morristo^vn, Vt., May 16, 1807; died at 
Hyde Park, Vt., January 21, 1891. He married Septem- 
ber 16, 1830, Jemima Goodale of Morristown. When 
but eighteen years old, Mr. Boardman taught a wTiting 
school at Coventry and Wasburgh, Vt., and had among 
his pupils, the late Chief Justice Redfield and his brother, 
the late Judge Timothy Redfield of Montpelier, Vt. Soon 
after his marriage, he settled on a farm in Hyde Park, 
but in the spring of 1842 he went back to the old Board- 
man homestead in Morristown, living in the third house 
that had been built on the same spot. He was a man of 
affairs in Hyde Park, being elected to several places of 
trust. He was Representative to the General Assembly 
during two terms. Soon after returning to Morristown, 
he was chosen twice to represent the town in Assembly. 
In his 81st year, still physically active, he sold the old 
homestead and went to reside with his widowed daughter, 
Mrs. Noyes, in Hyde Park, where he died. 

Children : 

1221. i. CORNELIA M., bom July 8, 1831; married Honorable 

Leander S. Small. 

1222. ii. HENRY A., bom Mar. 21, 1834; died in Califomia, Dec. 

21, 1876; unmarried. 

1223. iii. CHARLES CARROLL, bom Sept. 3, 1841; died Apr. 

3, 1852. 

1224. iv. ALMA F., bom Aug. 20, 1845; died Feb. 13, 1852. 

1225. V. ELLEN CLEORA, bom Dec. 31, 1847; married Albert 

Leigh Noyes. 

651. LORINDA BOARDMAN' (Ozias Boardman® Lydia 

Hinsdale^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^), daughter of 
Ozias Boardman, Jr. and Lydia Whitney, his wife, born 
at Morristown, Vt., August 10, 1801; died at Osage, la., 
January, 1891. She married at Morristown, September 
28, 1832, Harry Davis, who died at Osage in 1872. They 
removed from Vermont to Iowa, settling at Osage. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 261 

Children : 

1226. i. CAROLUS H., bom Mar. 20, 1835; married Lucetta Bay- 

lies. 

1227. ii. JULIAN H,, bom Feb. 20, 1837; married a Miss Benton. 

1228. iii. SOLON, bom May 3, 1842; died January, 1881; served 

tlirough the War of the Rebellion; married Mar., 1864, 
Melissa H. Wells; no children. 

654. ELISHA BOARDMAN' (Ozias Boardman^ Lydia Hins- 

dale^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^), son of Ozias 
Boardman, Jr., and Lydia Whitney, his wife, born at 
Morristown, Vt., August 14, 1811; died at Milwaukee, 
Wis., July 11, 1885. He married March 28, 1833, Mary 
S. Bingham of Morristown. He settled in Milwaukee, 
Wis., in 1850, and afterwards established the retail and 
wholesale wool houses of E. Boardman and E. Boardman 
and Son, in which business he continued till his death. 

Children : 

1229. i. CLEORA F., bom Mar. 25, 1835; died Nov. 6, 1847. 

1230. ii. ERMINA M., bom Dec. 2, 1836; died Dec. 3, 1849. 

1231. iii. OSCAR O., bom Apr. 8, 1843; died Mar. 10, 1844. 

1232. iv. MORILLO A., bom Dec. 13, 1838; married Sarah E. 

Seymour. 

655. HONORABLE NORMAN BOARDMAN' (Ozias Board- 

man® Lydia Hinsdale^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Rob- 
ert^), son of Ozias Boardman, Jr. and Lydia Whitney, his 
wife, born at Morristown, Vt., April 30, 1813; died at 
Lyons, la., upon his 81st birthday, April 30, 1894. He 
married first, March 5, 1843, Lydia Ann George of Troy, 
Vt., who died May 10, 1846. He married second, March 
2, 1848, Lois B. Knight of Glover, Vt., who died February 
11, 1857. He married third, February 11, 1858, Sarah 
M. Knight of Jaffrey, N. H. He began reading law in 
1837. In 1838 attended law lectures and was admitted to 
the bar at St. Albans, Vt., September, 1839. He commenced 
practice as an attorney at Troy, Vt., November 1, 1839. 
He was appointed Deputy United States Collector in 1845, 
was elected States Attorney for Orleans County, Vt., in 
1849 and 1850. He removed to Lyons, la., in 1855. He 
was chosen Chairman of the Board of Supervisors in 1860, 
and was elected State Senator for Clinton County, la., 



262 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

1862 to 1866. He was appointed Collector of Internal 
Revenue for the second district of Iowa, May 14, 1869, 
and held that office until his resignation in 1875. In pol- 
itics Mr. Boardman was a Democrat until the passage 
of the Nebraska bill under President Pierce in 1854. 
After that, he was an active Republican. In reUgion he 
was a Universal Restorationist. An obituary in the 
"Lyons Mirror" says of him: "The honors he won were 
upon ability and merit and the trusts reposed in him 
were always fulfilled." 

Children: 

By his first wife, Lydia Ann George. 

1233. i. FLORA, bom Apr. 10, 1845; died at Troy, Vt., Oct. 19, 

1845. 

By his second wife, Lois B. Knight. 

1234. ii. HOMER CULLEN, (Honorable), bom Feb. 22, 1849; 

married Emma F. Jacobson. 

1235. iii. WILLIAM lO^IGHT, (Honorable), bom Jan. 22, 1852; 

married Addie Henriquesen. 

1236. iv. CHARLES DAVIS, (Doctor), bora May 6, 1854; married 

Ida May Ross. 

657. FIDELIA BOARDMAN' (Ozias Boardman« Lydia Hinsdale^ 
Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert'), daughter of Ozias 
Boardman, Jr. and Lydia Whitney, his wife, born at 
Morristown, Vt., Jmie 28, 1817; died at Madison, South 
Dakota, in 1889. She married at Morristown, December, 
1845, Curtis N. Merriam. The family are all farmers 
living near Vilas, South Dakota. 

Children: 

1237. i. BERTRAND D., bom Dec. 7, 1846; married Celia Cole. 

1238. ii. WILLIAM W., bom June 13, 1852; married Sarah Lam- 

bert. 

1239. iii. NORMAN C, bom Nov. 12, 1860; married Lydia Far- 

rington. 

660. LYDIA BOARDMAN ' (William Boardman" Lydia Hinsdale^ 
Joseph^ Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^), daughter of William 
Boardman and Anna Town, his wife, born at Morristown, 
Vt., in 1804; died in 1877. She married in 1823, Hiram 
Earl of Morristown. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 263 

Children, born at Morristown, Vt. : 

1240. i. AMANDA, born in 1824; deceased; married in 1840 to 

a Mr. Stone. 

1241. ii. WILLIAM, born in 1825; married Emma Bacon. 

1242. iii. MARY, bom Dec. 10, 1828; married Seymour Harris. 

1243. iv. VERNON, bom Aug. 16, 1831; unmarried. 

1244. V. LUCINDA, born Mar. 22, 1834; married Josiah A. George. 

1245. vi. OLIVE A., bom Mar. 22, 1842; married Edwin D. Gil- 

bert. 

1246. vii. HIRAM A., bom Aug. 16, 1844; married Emma Hutchins. 

662. LUCY BOARDMAN' (William Boardman" Lydia Hinsdale^ 
Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^), daughter of William 
Boardman and Anna Town, his wife, born at Morristown, 
Vt., in 1806; died there March 28, 1858. She married 
in 1834, as his first wife, Charles S. Bartlett of Mor- 
ristown. 

Child: 

1247. i. MARION, married Samuel KimbaU. 

666. RALPH BOARDMAN' (WiUiam Boardman« Lydia Hins- 
dale^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^), son of William 
Boardman and Anna Town, his wife, born June 7, 1815; 
married Emily Bartlett. 

Children, born at Morristown, Vt. : 

1248. i. ARABELLA E., bom Mar. 7, 1845; married Harry S. 

Smith, 

1249. ii. HENRY, married. 

669. FLAVILLA BOARDMAN ' (WiUiam Boardman« Lydia Hins- 
dale^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^), daughter of Wil- 
liam Boardman and Anna Town, his wife, born at Morris- 
town, Vt., August 7, 1819, married there, October 27, 
1839, William W. Standish, a descendant in the eighth 
generation of Captain Miles Standish. He spent thirty 
years in different capacities in connection with the Boston 
& Albany and Connecticut River Railroads. He retired 
from business in 1877. He and his family live at Spring- 
field, Mass. 

Children : 

1250. i. OTIS, bom May 18, 1841; married Philura Smith; they 

reside at Montpelier, Vt. 



264 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

1251. ii. CORNELIUS, bom May 20, 1843; married three times. 

1252. iii. CHARLES, born July 24, 1848; died Jan. 14, 1882; 

unmarried. 

1253. iv. JOSEPHINE, bom July 24, 1848; married Levi L. King. 

671. CHARLES WRIGHT BOARDMAN' (William Boardman« 

Lydia Hinsdale^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert*), son of 
William Boardman and Anna Towai, his wife, born at Mor- 
ristown, Vt., October 22, 1826; married June, 1850, Hulda 
Cole of Morristown. He served through the War of the 
Rebellion. 

Children, born at MorristoT\ai, Vt.: 

1254. i. LUCINDA C, bom Aug. 20, 1851; married Willis Daniels. 

1255. ii. ALBERT WILLIAM, born June 12, 1853; married Emma 

Leora Cleveland. 

1256. iii. EMILY H., bom Sept. 7, 1855; married George Dough- 

erty. 

1257. iv. EDWIN J., bom May 12, 1860; married Nov., 1887, 

Laura Robbins of Wolcott, Vt. 

1258. V. CARRIE E., born Mar. 6, 1867. 

1259. vi. WILLIAM W., bom June 24, 1870. 

1260. vii. GRACE J., bom Nov. 18, 1880. 

672. HONORABLE WILLIAM ASA BOARDMAN' (Alfred 

Boardman" Lydia Hinsdale'^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ 
Robert*), son of Alfred Boardman and Lydia Little, his wife, 
born at Morristown, Vt., February 13, 1806; died at Joliet, 
111., October 12, 1872, or October 15, 1873. He married at 
Joliet in 1838, Emma Fish of Joliet, a sister of the wife 
of former Governor Mattison. Mr. Boardman read law 
and attended law lectures at St. Albans, Vt., in 1834 
and 1835. He removed to Joliet, 111., in 1836, and there 
became a good and successful lawyer. He was elected 
District Attorney and also District Judge, which office 
he held many years with credit to himself and satisfaction 
to the people. In his later years, he became much in- 
terested in Spiritualism, and lectured on that subject. 
His children and grandchildren live in Chicago, 111. 

Children : 

1261. i. ALFRED, born Aug. 2, 1839; unmarried. 

1262. ii. CALVIN, born Feb. 23, 1842; married Julia Miller. 

1263. iii. CLARA M., born Sept. 20, 1843; married William B. 

Keese. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 265 

1264. iv. LILLY C, born May 23, 1850; married Byron Van 

Dyke. 

673. DIANTHA S. BOARDMAN ' (Alfred Boardman" Lydia Hins- 

dale^ Joseph^ Isaac^ Barnabas- Robert*), daughter of Alfred 
Boardman and Lydia Little, his wife, born at Morris- 
town, Vt., September 10, 1811; died at Crete, 111., Sep- 
tember 24, 1865. She married May 4, 1835, Willakd 
Wood, who was born at Randolph, Vt. He was bred a 
lawyer, but removing to a wilderness of prairie thirty 
miles south of Chicago, 111., and founding the town, now 
village of Crete, he became an agriculturist and never 
practiced the law except locally. He was living at Crete 
in 1897. 

Children : 

1265. i. SABRINA DIANTHA, bom Feb. 5, 1836; married Rob- 

ert B. Miller. 

1266. ii. FIDELIA L., born Jan. 11, 1838; married Daniel E. 

Hewes. 

1267. iii. LYDIA M., born Mar. 11, 1839; married Honorable 

Charles A. Hill. 

1268. iv. AUGUSTA, born July, 1842; died in infancy. 

1269. v. ALFRED, bom July, 1842; died in infancy. 

1270. vi. SELWYN WILLARD, (Honorable), born Oct. 12, 

1844; married Mary Ellen Moore. 

1271. vii. IRWIN W., bom Mar. 4, 1846; married Alvira Hewes. 

1272. viii. ALFRED BOARDMAN, bom Apr. 25, 1848; died June 

9, 1852. 

1273. ix. MARION M., bom Sept. 15, 1850; married Albert H. 

Smith. 

1274. X. MORTON M., bom July 5, 1851; married Jessie D. Wood. 

674. TRUMAN GRANDEY' (Jesse Grandey« Mary Hinsdale^ 

Joseph^ Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert*), son of Jesse Grandey 
and his second wife, Lucretia Batcheller, born at Panton, 
Vt., June 19, 1803; died September 18, 1851. He 
married, January 1, 1824, Polly R. Myrick, who was 
born at Panton, Vt., October 11, 1805, and died Decem- 
ber 3, 1884. 

Children : 

1275. i. MARY HINSDALE, bom Dec. 29, 1824; married Zenas 

Alanson Curtis. 

1276. ii. MARIA LOUISA, bom Mar. 17, 1827; married Loyal 

Kent. 



266 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

1277. iii. CORNELIA, born Mar. 7, 1829; married Enoch J. Kent. 

1278. iv. JESSE LYMAN, bom Apr. 25, 1831; married Adeline 

Kingsland. 

1279. V. EMILY, bom Mar. 9, 1834; died Apr. 16, 1841. 

1280. vi. HARRIET, born July 11, 1837; married Josiah M. 

Stagg. 

1281. vii. WILLIAM MYRICK, born Nov. 16, 1839; married 

twice. 

1282. viii. ELLEN, born Nov. 10, 1841; married Waiiam White. 

1283. ix. CH.ARLES HENRY, born Aug. 28,1847; married Lucy 

J. Fitch. 

675. SAJMANTHA GRANDEY' (Jesse Grandey« Mary Hins- 

dale^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas- Robert^), davighter of 
Jesse Grandey and his second wife, Liicretia Batcheller, 
born at Panton, Addison County, Vt., June 24 or 25, 1805; 
died at Los Angeles, Cal., February 16, 1894 or 1895, 
aged 89. She married at Panton, February 5, 1829, 
Clark Conant of Panton, who was born at Warwick, 
Franklin County, Mass., November 24, 1804. 

Children : 

1284. i. JESSE LYMAN, (Doctor), bom at Peru, Clinton County, 

N. Y., May 13, 1831; married at Peru, Mar., 1852, 
Julia Rock. They had three children; he is a practic- 
ing physician at Spokane Falls, Wash. 

1285. ii. CHARLES TRUMAN, born at Pern, N. Y., May 1, 1833; 

died at Port Henry, Essex Co., N. Y., June 24, 18.39. 

1286. iii. JANE ANN, bom at Pern or Birmingham, N. Y., Apr. 

16, 1836; married William H. Pope. 

1287. iv. WILLIAJVI M., born Sept. 25, 1838; married Mary Rich- 

ardson. 

1288. V. GEORGE C, bom at Panton, Addison County, Vt., Jan. 

16, 1841; died in the West End Military Hospital at 
Cincinnati, O., Aug. 21, 1863. 

1289. vi. EMILYL.,bom Apr. 5, 1845; married John W. Gardner. 

1290. vii. LUCRETIA S., bom at Panton, Vt., Aug. 16, 1850; 

married at Parma, Mich., May 25, 1870, or May 24, 
1871, Elmer A. Clarke; no children; present residence 
Los Angeles, Cal. 

676. ANNA GRANDEY' (Jesse Grandey« Mary Hinsdale' 

Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^), daughter of Jesse 
Grandey, and his second wife, Lucretia Batcheller, born 
at Panton, Vt., February 22, 1808; died at Parma, Mich., 
April 20, 1891, aged 83 years. She married at Panton, 
January 5, 1825, Charles Myrick of Panton. They re- 



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moved to Kane, Green County, 111,, and from there to 
Parma, Mich. 

Child: 

1291. i. SARAH JANE, bom May 1, 1839; married Eliot M. Crip- 

pen. 

677. ACHSAH GRANDER (Jesse Grandey« Mary Hinsdale^ 

Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert*), daughter of Jesse 
Grandey, and his second wife, Lucretia BatcheUer, born 
at Panton, Vt., April 2, 1810, died May 12, 1886, aged 
76 years. She married at Panton, January 10, 1835, 
Anthony Lee Burwell They moved with their three 
children to Parma, Mich. 

Children, born at Panton, Vt. : 

1292. i. FRANCES J., bom Jan. 2, 1837; died of typhoid fever 

at Parma, Mich., May 23, 1856; married at Panton, 
Mar. 20, 1852, Edric Ferris. 

1293. ii. CHARLES LEE, bom Aug. 15, 1838; died of typhoid 

fever at Parma, Mich., Mar. 16, 1856. 

1294. iii. ANNA L., bom Sept. 16, 1844; married James Henry 

King. 

678. HONORABLE GEORGE WASHINGTON GRANDEY' 

(Jesse Grandey^ Mary Hinsdale^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ 
Robert*), son of Jesse Grandey and his second wife, 
Lucretia BatcheUer, born at Panton, Vt., February 3, 1813, 
died December 4, 1893. He married, March, 1846, Mary 
Wentworth, born at Starksboro, Vt., July 31, 1829. 
From 1830 he lived in Vergennes, Vt. He was admitted 
to the bar of Addison County, Vt., in 1840, and soon after- 
wards to the Supreme Court of Vermont, and to the bar 
of the Supreme Court of the United States; was Repre- 
sentative from Vergennes to the General Assembly of 
Vermont for thirteen years; was State Senator for two 
years; Speaker of the House in 1854, and re-elected in 
1855-1856, and at the extra session in 1857, and again 
Speaker in 1868, and re-elected in 1869; was County Super- 
intendent of schools in 1846-7; Superintendent in Ver- 
gennes twenty-four years; Member of State Board of Edu- 
cation in 1873 and 1874; Quartermaster-General of Ver- 
mont from 1850 to 1857. He was Chairman of Ver- 
mont Electoral College in 1860, and Delegate-at-large 



268 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

from Vermont to the National Republican Convention in 
1872, and was Chairman of the State Republican Com- 
mittee during three presidential campaigns. He was 
Court Auditor eight years; National Bank Examiner six 
years; and Justice of the Peace continously fifty-six years, 
and for the twenty-eight years prior to his death, was 
President of the Addison Coimty Bar Association. 

Children : 

1295. i. GEORGE WASHINGTON, died in California about 1866. 

1296. ii. JESSE WENTWORTH, living in 1896 with his mother 

at the old home at Vergennes, Vt. 

680. SARAH GRANDEY' (Jesse Grandey" Mary Hinsdale^ 

Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert'), daughter of Jesse 
Grandey and his second wife, Lucretia Batcheller, born 
at Panton, Vt., March 21, 1818, married there, October 
26, 1841, Jefferson Converse of Panton, who died Aug. 
17, 1889. She was livmg at Panton in 1897. The 
compilers of the Hinsdale Genealogy are indebted to her 
for the account of the Grandey family, descendants of 
Mary Hinsdale Grandey. She took a great interest in 
genealogical matters, and has assisted greatly in getting 
material for this book. She and her cousin, Elizabeth, 
daughter of Truman Grandey, were the last survivors of 
their generation. Mrs. Converse's reminiscences are, there- 
fore, very valuable. 

Children : 

1297. i. JOHN ROLLIN, (Lieutenant), bom Nov. 28, 1842; 

graduated at Middlebury College before he was 20 years 
of age; enlisted as a private in the 14th Vermont Vol- 
unteers for nine months, and served his time; was pro- 
moted 2nd Lieutenant at the battle of Gettysburg; 
came home and enlisted a Company of recruits for the 
17th Regiment, which was ordered to Petersburg, where 
he was slain, July 30, 1864; it is not known where his 
body was buried. 

1298. ii. JESSE GRANDEY, bom Aug. 4, 1846; married Fanny 

Warren. 

1299. iii. JUBA HOWE, born Nov. 7, 1852; married Clara L. 

Trask. 

681 . JANE LUCRETIA GRANDEY ' (Jesse Grandey" Mary Hins- 

dale^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter of Jesse 



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Grandey and his second wife, Lucretia Batcheller, born at 
Panton, Vt., February 14, 1821, died at Bristol, Vt., in 
1859. She married Henry Spalding, of Panton, who 
died in 1875. They moved to Bristol, Vt. He was a 
successful merchant, but through some mismanagement 
lost his property. After his wife's death, in 1863, he 
removed to New York City, taking with him his children, 
aged twelve and ten, and resided there until his death. 

Children, born at Bristol, Vt.: 

1300. i. MARY EVA, bom May 19, 1851; unmarried. 

1301. ii. HENRY, bom Nov. 18, 1853; married Haimah Maria 

Adams. 

698. DOCTOR HERMAN DEXTER" (Olivia Hinsdale' Moses^ 
Joseph* Isaac"* Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Jeremiah Dexter 
and Olivia Hinsdale, his wife, was a physician. He mar- 
ried, but no record is found of the date or the name of 
his wife. 

Children : 

1302. i. LEVERETT, went to^Australia many years ago, and haa 

never been heard from. 

1303. ii. CHARLES, died aged about seven years. 

700. NEWTON LORD DEXTER ^ (OHvia Hinsdale' Moses^ 
Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^), son of Jeremiah Dexter 
and : Olivia Hinsdale, his wife, born at East Walpole, 
Mass., October 17, 1809, is deceased. He married at Long 
Branch, N. J., November 15, 1840, Lydia Cook. 

Children : 

1304. i. JEREMIAH NEWTON, bom:Sept.9,il841; married Celia 

E. Chamberlin. 

1305. ii. ANNEELIZABETH, bomJan. 23, 1843; married George 

N. Burch. 

1306. iii. STEPHEN HINSDALE, bom Oct. 2, 1844; married 

Edna Augusta Morgan. 
130/. iv. MARY CAROLINE, bom Aug. 6, 1846; married James 
Palen Rarabalk. 

1308. v. THEODORE FRELINGHUYSEN, bora Nov. 18, 1848; 

married Mary L. Spurr. 

1309. vi. HARRIET LOUISE, bom June 15, 1852; married WU- 

liam C. Cornell. 

1310. vii. JENNIE OLIVIA, bom at Salisbury, Conn., Aug. 16, 

1856. 

1311. viii. EDGAR COOK, bom at Salisbury, Aug. 28, 1860. 



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701. OLIVIA MARIA DEXTER^ (OUvia Hinsdale" Moses^ 
Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^), daughter of Jeremiah 
Dexter and OUvia Hinsdale, his wife, born at SaUsbury, 
Conn., October 31, 1814, died February 14, 1895. She 
married September 3, 1838, Henry G. Shook. 

Children : 

1312. i. REVERE DEXTER, (Sergeant), born Nov. 19, 1842; 

married Frances E. Alexander. 

1313. ii. HERMAN HINSDALE, born Feb. 28, 1846; married 

Annie E. Knight. 

708. HENRY HARMON BYINGTON^ (Anson Byington« Lucy 
Hinsdale^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^), son of Anson 
Byington and his second wife, Theoda Cunningham, born 
March 28, 1819, died February 22, 1885. He married 
Susan Whittier Archibald, who died September, 1897, 
at Chicago, 111. 

Children: 

1314. i. GEORGE, died in an insane asylvmi at Jacksonville, HI. 

1315. ii. CHARLOTTE, living in the old homestead at 465 Jack- 

son Boulevard, Chicago, 111., in 1897. 

1316. iii. LAURA, married Rev. Myron PLnkerton. 

710. WILLIAM WORTH BYINGTON ' (Anson Byington« Lucy 

Hinsdale^ Joseph^ Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Anson 
Byington and his second wife, Theoda Cunningham, born 
January 9, 1822; was living in Elkhorn, Wis. He mar- 
ried, first, Adaline Wing of Ferrisburg, Vt.; second, 
Sarah Prior, a widow. He was a hardware merchant 
and held various public offices. 

Children : 

By his first wife, Adaline Wing. 

1317. i. CLARENCE N., a grocer in Elkhom, Wis.; unmarried. 

1318. ii. CYNTHIA, married Byron Daniels, who died several 

years ago; they had one son, William, who lives with 
his mother in Elkhom; she is organist in the Congre- 
tional Church there. 

711. MYRON MONROE BYINGTON^ (Anson Byington" Lucy 

Hinsdale^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^), son of An- 
son Byington and his second wife, Theoda Cunningham, 
born May 18, 1823, married, and lived, first, in Burling- 
ton, Vt. He then removed with his family, consisting of 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 271 

his wife, one son and one daughter, to New York City, 
where he engaged in the Hvery business; from thence he 
removed to Elkhorn, Wis., where both he and his wife 
died, and are buried in the cemetery at Elkhorn. His 
son is a farmer and has a wife and two children. 

712. SIDNEY SEYMOUR BYINGTON' (Anson Byington« Lucy 

Hinsdale^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^), son of Anson 
Byington and his second wife, Theoda Cunningham, born 
September 13, 1824, in Williston, Vt., where he lived until 
1851; married his cousin Clara L. Wicker. In 1856, 
removed to Clinton, Iowa, where he lived until the Civil 
War broke out, and then in 1862, removed to Chicago, 
lU., where he was for many years engaged in the hard- 
ware business. He was a successful business man, but 
his health failed, and he died in Saratoga, N. Y., De- 
cember 29, 1897, after an illness of nine weeks. He was 
buried at Lockport, N. Y. 

713. LUCY LAVINA BYINGTON' (Anson Byington'' Lucy Hins- 

dale^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert*), daughter of Anson 
Byington and his second wife, Theoda Cunningham, born 
June 4, 1826; married Edwin R. Newell; lives in East 
Charlotte, Vt., to which place she went as a bride, May 
25, 1853. 

Children : 

1319. i. WYLLYS NORMAN, married ZeUa Osgood, May 1, 1895; 

lives at the old homestead at Charlotte with his mother. 

1320. ii. WILLARD MARSH, died Feb. 9, 1867. 

714. HIRAM HUBERT BYINGTON' (Anson Byington« Lucy 

Hinsdale^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^), son of Anson 
Byington and his second wife, Theoda Cunningham, born 
October 8, 1827, died April 17, 1885, at Ferrisburg, Vt. 
He married Martha Burkett. They had three children, 
two daughters and one son. 

Child: 

1321. i. ERMIN A EMILY, married twice. 

715. HONORABLE ALFRED ANSON BYINGTON' (Anson 

Byington^ Lucy Hinsdale^ Joseph* Isaac* Barnabas^ 



272 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Robert^), son of Anson Byington and his second wife, 
Theoda Cimningham, born April 17, 1830, at Williston, 
Vt.; lives in West Charlotte, Vt. He married Mary Ann 
Marsh, who was born in Hinesburg, Vt., in 1835. He is 
a farmer. He has been in the Legislature of Vermont, 
and held town offices many years. 

Child: 

1322. i. JENNIE, married George Prindle of Charlotte, Vt. 

716. CAROLINE ELIZA WICKER' (OriUa Bymgton'^ Lucy 
Hinsdale^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^), daughter 
of William Frederick Wicker and Orilla Byington, his 
wife, born in Charlotte, Vt., May 7, 1822, died August 4, 
1884; she married Isaac Allen of Lockport, N. Y., an 
early settler. He carried on an extensive bakery busi- 
ness in that city from 1840 till his death. 

Children: 

1323. i. VINCENT M., married, Jan. 19, 1888, Kate E. Beardsley, 

and had two children. 

1324. ii. FRANK LYMAN, married Mar. 11, 1875, Fannie Foot. 

1325. ill. CAROLINE MINERVA, unmarried. 

724. CAROLINE PRISCILLA BYINGTON' (John Byington* 
Lucy Hinsdale^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas" Robert^), 
daughter of Reverend John Byington and his first 
wife, Priscilla Ferris, born at Charlotte, Vt., March 25, 
1824, married Ambrose White. Her present address is 
Battle Creek, Mich. 

Children : 

1326. i. CHARLES E., lives at Ceresco, Mich. 

1327. ii. FRANK F., lives at Battle Creek, Mich. 

1328. iii. JOHN E., lives with his parents at Battle Creek, Mich. 

1329. iv. LAURA H., bom 1849 or 1850; married Garret Ger- 

rould; lives at Battle Creek, Mich. 

726. JOHN FLETCHER BYINGTON, M. D.' (John Byington" 
Lucy Hinsdale^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^, son 
of Reverend John Byington and his second wife, Catherine 
Newton, born at West Potsdam, N. Y., August 29 or 
30, 1832; died at Coopersville, Ottawa County, Mich., 
May 21, 1872. He married. May 30, 1858, Martha 
Louisa Smith, daughter of Cyrenius Smith of Battle 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 273 

Creek, Mich. He studied medicine and received his di- 
ploma from the Homoeopathic Medical College of Cleve- 
land, Ohio, in 1863. He practiced his profession for sev- 
eral years at Union City, Mich., and afterwards became 
identified with the Battle Creek Sanitarium, Michigan, 
where he was in charge for over a year. He then resumed 
private practice which he continued until his death. 

Children : 

1330. i. CHARLES SPERRY, bom Mar. 14, 1861; married Jen- 

nie Stanford. 

1331. u. FRED FLETCHER, bom Sept. 2, 1862; lives at Oak- 

land, Cal. 

1332. iii. TERESA EUSEBM, born at Union City, Mich., Oct. 

15, 1865; married. Mar. 31, 1890, J. Townsend Crane; 
lives at Altruria, Cal. 

1333. iv. MARY KATE, bom at Newton, Mich., Mar. 14, 1869; 

lives at Ann Arbor, Mich. 

1334. V. JOHN FLETCHER, (Doctor), born at Coopersville, 

Mich., May 11, 1871 ; graduated in medicine at Michigan 
University, Ann Arbor, June, 1897; his present address 
is Ann Arbor, Mich.; he received the degree of A. B. and 
M. D. from the University of Michigan. 

727. MARTHA D. BYINGTON ' (John Byington« Lucy Hmsdale^ 

Joseph"* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^), daughter of Rev- 
erend John Byington and his second wife, Catherine New- 
ton, born at West Potsdam, N. Y., in 1833; married 
George W. Amadon. They live at Battle Creek, Mich. 

Children : 

1335. i. KATHARINE, married Fred Gage; lives at Battle Creek, 

Mich. 

1336. ii. GRACE, lives at Battle Creek. Mich. 

728. LUTHER LEE BYINGTON^ (John Byington" Lucy Hins- 

dale^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert*), son of Reverend 
John Byington and his second wife, Catherine Newton, 
born at West Potsdam, N. Y., October 17, 1834, married, 
and lives at Toronto, Kan. 

Children : 

1337. i. MINNIE THERESA, bom Dec. 13, 1863; married P. F. 

Chapman of Middlebury, Vt.; lives at Middlebury. 

1338. ii. GLENN A., bom Apr. 4, 1865; lives at Toronto, Kan. 

1339. iii. JOSEPHINE L. 

1340. iv. I^TE GRACE, lives at Toronto, Kan. 



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736. ADELINE CYNTHIA HINSDALE^ (Mitchell" Aaron^ 
Joseph^ Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^), daughter of Judge 
Mitchell Hinsdale and Dorothy Weed, his wife, born 
at Hinesburg, Vt., November 2, 1815; died at South 
Haven, Mich., March 2, 1889. She was married by Rev. 
J. A. B. Stone, at Kalamazoo, Mich., November 17, 1844, 
to her second cousin, Stephen Chittenden Hinsdale 
(No. 620), son of Norman Hinsdale and Mary Galusha, 
his wife. They are both buried in Mountain Home 
Cemetery at Kalamazoo. They had no children. 

738. MARY JANE HINSDALE^ (Mitchell* Aaron^ Joseph^ 

Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^), daughter of Judge Mitchell 
Hinsdale and Dorothy Weed, his wife, born at 
Hinesburg, Vt., February 7, 1820, was married at Kala- 
mazoo, Mich., by Rev. O. P. Hoyt, March 9, 1843, to her 
her second cousin, Orson Bingham Galusha (No. 642). 
They lived at North Peoria, 111., until the death of Mr. 
Galusha, which occurred June 15, 1898, aged 78 years. 
They had two children. (See Nos. 1214 and 1215). 

739. EDWIN CHARLES HINSDALE ^ (Mitchell* Aaron^ 

Joseph^ Isaac^ Barnabas- Robert^, son of Judge Mitchell 
Hinsdale and Dorothy Weed, his wife, born at Hinesburg, 
Vt., July 30, 1821, died at Detroit, Mich., Jmie 12, 1894. 
He was married at Hopkinton, N. Y., by Rev. Mr. Wood, 
April 25, 1849, to his cousin, Ellen Jane Kent, who 
was born there December 22, 1823. She died at Detroit, 
April 22, 1902. They had three children, all daughters, 
of whom the eldest died under two years of age. The 
others were living in 1899, with their mother in Detroit. 
Upon his death, the following tribute to his memory was 
adopted by the Bar of Detroit: 

"Memorial and Tribute of the Detroit Bar Association 
to the memory of Edwin C. Hinsdale. Henry M. Cheever 
submitted the following memorial and resolution: Edwin 
Charles Hinsdale was born at Hinesburg, Vermont, in 1821. 
He removed to Michigan when twelve years of age. He 
entered the University of Michigan, taking only a partial 
course and removed to Mississippi, where he engaged in 
teaching for several years. Retui'ning to Michigan, he 
followed the profession of teaching four years at Battle 




EDWIN CHARLES HINSDALE 
No. 739 



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Creek, when he abandoned it and entered the law office 
of Benjamin F. Graves, then one of the most prominent 
lawyers of Central I\Iichigan, and who afterwards became 
one of the justices of the Supreme Court of the State. 
Mr. Hinsdale was admitted to the bar in 1857, and came 
to Detroit, where he became associated with the Hon. C. I. 
Walker in the practice of his profession. This associa- 
tion continued until within the past two years, when the 
health of both these gentlemen failing they retired from 
practice. Following the natural inclination of his mind, 
and preferring the work of the office, and the applications 
and investigations which such a field afforded the lawyer, 
rather than the more intense activities of a Court practice, 
he was rarely found in the forensic arena, but his profes- 
sional labor was seen in the careful preparation and legal 
investigation of cases, which others presented for adjudi- 
cation. He held the office of City Treasurer for one term 
and regarded the office as a public trust, the responsi- 
bilities pertaining to which office he discharged with rare 
fidelity and abihty. He was a man of fine literary taste, 
a great reader, a student of modern languages other than 
his mother tongue, and his wonderful memory enabled 
him to utilize these abilities to his own enjoyment as 
well as to the gratification of others. A man of sterling 
integrity, of deep religious convictions, of positive traits 
of character, and withal of such warm sympathies, he pre- 
sented to the world a life so well rounded in all its noble 
qualities that he won the respect and esteem of all who 
knew him. In his professional and official life he was above 
reproach, in his private life pure, and in his Christian 
professions sincere and consistent. For many years he 
has borne his bodily infirmities with patience and resig- 
nation, and when the summons came, he obeyed with 
nothing to fear. We submit the following resolution: 

" Resolved, that an engraved copy of this memorial be 
transmitted to the family of the deceased, as a token of 
our sorrow and our sympathy with them in their afflic- 
tion. " Henry M. Cheever. 

" S. M. Cutcheon. 

" Don M. Dickinson. 

Committee." 



276 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

From Detroit (Mich.) Free Press, July 13, 1894: 

"Edwin C. Hinsdale died about noon yesterday at his 
late residence, 139 Lafayette avenue, in the 73rd year of 
his age. 

" He was for many years one of the most prominent law- 
yers of this city, but about a year ago he retired from 
practice owing to failing health. Seventeen years ago he 
sustained a stroke of apoplexy, from which he never fully 
recovered. Other similar attacks followed at intervals, 
which came upon him so suddenly that he would fall sense- 
less. The nature and cause of those attacks baffled his 
medical attendants. At times they were attended by 
partial paralysis. A week ago last Sunday he attended 
services at the First Congregational chiu-ch, of which he 
was a deacon, and assisted in taking up the collection. On 
the following day he was attending to business. Tues- 
day, one of his shocks returned, but unUke the former 
attacks, bleeding did not restore him. Spasms that seemed 
to result from slight apoplectic shocks were frequent, and 
the end soon came. 

"Mr. Hinsdale was born at Hinesburg, Vt.,in 1821,and 
in 1833 he came to Michigan. He entered for a literary 
course at the University of Michigan, but could not remain 
to graduate owing to straitened circumstances. He 
then went to Union Church, Miss., where he taught for 
seven years, then returned to Michigan, and taught in 
the academy at Battle Creek for four or five years. He 
next took up law, and studied in the office of Judge Graves. 
In 1857, when admitted to the bar, he came to Detroit, 
taking part of the office of Hon. C. L. Walker, He was 
twice elected City Treasurer, and this was the only pubhc 
office he ever held, though he filled many positions of 
honor and trust. 

" He was a lawyer of recognized ability, giving the most 
of his time to the drawing of legal papers and preparing 
briefs, in which department he had probably no superior 
in this city. He was a man of unblemished integrity^ 
and to the last enjoyed the esteem and confidence of all 
who knew him. 

He leaves a widow and two daughters, Mary and Gene- 
vieve. The funeral service will take place to-night at his 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 277 

late residence at 7:30, and will be conducted by Rev. Dr. 
Davis, of the First Congregational Church. On Thursday 
morning the remains will be taken to Kalamazoo and 
interred in the family burying ground." 

Children : 

1341. i. DOROTHY MITCHELL, bom at Kalamazoo, Mich., July 

22, 1853; died at Battle Creek, Mich., Dec. 30, 1854. 

1342. ii. GENEVIEVE SARAH, born at Battle Creek, Mich., 

Sept. 23, 1855. 

1343. iii. MARY CAROLINE, born at Battle Creek, Mich., Dec. 

2, 1857. 

740. NORMAN MITCHELL HINSDALE^ (MitchelP Aaron^ 

Joseph^ Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^), son of Judge Mitch- 
ell Hinsdale and Dorothy Weed, his wife, born at 
Hinesburg, Vt., May 2, 1823, was drowned at Lamont, 
Ottawa County, Mich., March 23, 1864. He married, first, 
at Paris, Kent Coimty, Mich., September 28, 1846, Eliz- 
abeth Reynolds Luther, who was born at Bristol, R. I., 
November 21, 1821, and died at Lisbon, 111., October 14, 
1854. He married, second, at Ottawa, 111., October 5, 
1858, Isabella Cameron of Ottawa. He went to reside 
in Ottawa County, Mich., in 1838. He lost his life in an 
attempt to rescue a boy from drowning in the Grand 
river at Lamont. 

Children: 

By his first wife, Elizabeth Reynolds Luther. 

1344. i. ADELINE M.iRY, bom Feb. 8, 1848; married Charles 

Pitman. 

1345. ii. ELLEN ROSELLE, bom May 24, 1849; married Theo- 

dore A. Sloan. 

1346. iii. GEORGE WILLIAM, born near Grand Rapids, Mich., 

May, 1853; died Sept., 1854. 

By his second wife, Isabella Cameron. 

1347. iv. NORMAN DWIGHT, born May 10, 1862; married Eliz- 

abeth Eloise Baldwin, 

741. MYRON HENRY HINSDALE ' (Mitchell" Aaron^ Joseph* 

Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert'), son of Judge Mitchell 
Hinsdale and Dorothy Weed, his wife, born at Hines- 
burg, Vt., March 5, 1825, died at Wichita, Kan., August 
26, 1888, and is buried at Kewanee, 111. He was mar- 
ried at Corydon, Ind., by Rev. George F. Whitworth, 



278 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

November 19, 1849, to Emily Lucinda Fabrique, who 
was born at Corydon, Ind., and died at Tama, Iowa, Aug. 
19, 1887. He spent most of his married life at Sterling 
111., and was a druggist there. 

Children : 

1348. i. HENRY MITCHELL, born Apr. 3, 1851; died Oct. 3, 

1855. 

1349. ii. CELESTIA FABRIQUE, born Aug. 22, 1853; died July 

19, 1855. 

1350. iii. FREDERICK DUDLEY, bom June 9, 1856; died July 

2, 1878. 

1351. iv. FRANK LEWIS, (Doctor), born Sept. 20, 1859; grad- 

uated as a physician at Rush Medical College, Chicago. 

1352. V. CORA LOUISE, bom Oct. 4, 1861; died Aug. 26, 1888; 

buried at same time and place with her father. 

1353. vi. NORMAN M., born Feb. 22, 1865; graduated at Olivet 

College, Mich., in 1885. 

742. HONORABLE GEORGE AARON HINSDALE ' (Mitchell* 
Aaron^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^, Lieutenant- 
Governor of Colorado, son of Judge Mitchell Hinsdale 
and Dorothy Weed, his wife, born at Hinesburg, Vt., 
December 21, 1826, died at Pueblo, Col., January 15, 
1874. He was graduated from Michigan University, Ann 
Arbor, in 1849. He married at Cloverport, Ky., October 
9, 1856, Josephine Murray Sebastian, born at Clover- 
port, Ky,, May 5, 1834, fourth daughter of Doctor Charles 
Benjamin Sebastian and Elizabeth Murray, his wife. A 
year or two after his marriage, he came West and settled 
in Dakota, Neb., where he engaged in the practice of law. 
In 1859, he was elected and served as a member of the 
Nebraska legislature from his district. He suffered from 
asthma and in 1860 removed to Colorado, and was cured 
of his malady. He first engaged in mining in California 
Gulch, and m the fall of 1860, went to Canon City, which 
had just been laid out as a wintering town for miners, 
and he there built one of the first dwellings. In 1863 
he settled in Pueblo, Col., when there were scarcely a 
half dozen families there, living in the rudest of huts. In 
1864, he removed to San Louis in Costilla County, where 
he lived nearly two years, during which time he acquired 
a good knowledge of the Spanish language, and in the sum- 
mer of 1866, he moved back to Pueblo, where he engaged 



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in the practice of law, and where he hved until his death. 
At the election upon the adoption of the State Constitu- 
tion in 1865, he was elected Lieutenant-Governor upon 
the Democratic ticket, being the only Democrat elected 
on the state ticket, and as such presided over the joint 
session of the State Legislature which was held at Denver, 
in 1865, and which elected Governor John Evans and 
Honorable Jerome B, Chaffee, United State Senators 
under the enabling Act for state admission, the Bill for 
which passed Congress but was vetoed by President John- 
son. In 1868, he was elected member of the Territorial 
Council, and at the session of 1870, was chosen President 
of that body. He was a member of the first board of 
trustees of the town of Pueblo after its incorporation, and 
at the time of his death, was president of the city School 
Board, and County Attorney of Pueblo County. He 
filled numerous offices of public trust and honor and was 
identified with the history and growth of Southern 
Colorado. One of the counties of the state bears his name. 
In politics he was always a Democrat of the finest type, 
and as one of the leaders of the party in Colorado, he 
held the respect of his political opponents by his ability 
no less than his sincerity, fidelity and conscientious in- 
tegrity. His somewhat peculiar bent of mind, his un- 
selfish nature, and his love of poetry and general litera- 
ture divested him of all tendency to financial scheming 
in business pursuits, and he was not, therefore, what may 
be called a money-making man. He left three children, 
one of whom was born a few hours after the death of the 
father. 

Children : 

1354. i. MARY, bom at Sargent's Bluff, la., Aug., 1857; died 

Sept., 1857. 

1355. ii. CHARLES MITCHELL, bom July 24, 1858; married 

Clara Emelia Dempsey. 

1356. iii. GENEVIEVE, bom at Pueblo, Col., Dec. 21, 1866. 

1357. iv. GEORGE AARON, bom at Pueblo, Jan. 16, 1874. 

744. GENEVIEVE DELIA HINSDALE^ (Mitchell" Aaron^ 
Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert'), daughter of Judge 
Mitchell Hinsdale and Dorothy Weed, his wife, born at 
Hinesburg, Vt., January 27, 1831, died at South Haven, 



280 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Mich., April 11, 1896. She was married at Morris, 111., 
by Rev. A. S. Kedzie, October 17, 1855, to George Fred- 
erick Barstow, who was born at Burlington, Vt., Jan- 
uary 5, 1823, and died at South Haven, Mich., May 18, 
1873. The life of Mrs. Barstow showed in a remark- 
able degree the power of aspiration and will to over- 
come adverse circumstances and rise superior to them. 
Trials and conditions that would have dwarfed and 
stunted a smaller, less spiritual nature only broad- 
ened and developed her rare abihties. The mother of a 
large family, with limited means, care was her constant 
companion, but never her master. Scrupulous in her 
attention to the physical comfort of her family, she yet 
foimd time to continually add to the acquirements of a 
mind well trained and stored in youth, all that was latest 
and best in the literatiue and science of her advanced 
life, so that in her last days she was a wise counsellor and 
instructor to her family and friends. Living remote from 
the so-called "centers of culture," she yet became in her- 
self a "center of culture" to all about her — an inspiration 
to intellectual and moral good in the community in which 
she lived. Rarely indeed, is the poet's ideal of 

"A perfect woman, ,nobly planned, 
To counsel, comfort and command," 

SO nearly realized as in her character. 

Children: 

1358. i. A son, bom and died Jan. 12, 1857. 

1359. ii. JOHN HINSDALE, born at Lisbon, 111.; June 3, 1858; 

died at Lisbon Sept. 7, 1859. 

1360. ill. JAMES SPENCER, bom Feb. 16, 1860; married Nellie 

E. Whittemore. 

1361. iv. FAYETTE, bom Jan. 22, 1862; married Ella Keasby. 

1362. V. GEORGE MITCHELL, bom at Morris, 111., Jan. 18, 1864. 

1363. vi. FANNY, bom at Morris, May 3, 1866; married B. Le 

Roy Perkins; they have a son, George Barstow Perkins, 
bom July 8, 1902. 

1364. vii. LUCY, bom at Morris, Apr. 26, 1868; died at Chicago, 

111., Feb. 10, 1871. 

1365. viii. DORA or DOROTHY, bom Oct. 22, 1872; married 

Frederic W. Pettibone. 

747. MYRON HINSDALE HOSFORD^ Cynthia Hinsdale" 
Aaron^ Joseph^ Isaac^ Barnabas^ RobertO son of Orin 



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Hosford and Cyiithia Hinsdale, his wife, born at 
Charlotte, Vt., October 28, 1821, died there December 3, 
1890. He married at Hinesburg, Vt., October 30, 1853, 
Sarah Ann Stearns, who was born at Beekmantown, 
N. Y., October 22, 1829. 

Children, born at Charlotte, Vt. : 

1366. i. FREDERICK HINSDALE, born July 21, 1855; mar- 

ried Jennie Elizabeth Stone. 

1367. ii. MARIAN AURELIA, bom Apr. 14, 1858. 

1368. iii. CATHERINE CARLTON, bom Sept. 2, 1860; married 

Oct. 27, 1895, Marshal D. Smith of Northfield, Vt., bom 
at Harris, Marquette Co., Wis., Jan. 31, 1862. 

1369. iv. JANE FINNEY, bom Feb. 9, 1864; married William 

Hall Trowbridge. 

1370. V. GENEVIEVE CAROLINE, born Dec. 11, 1866. 

749. PROSPER H. TYRRELL^ (Jerusha Hinsdale" Aaron' 
Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Stephen San- 
ford TjTrell and Jerusha Hinsdale, his wife, born at 
Monkton, Vt., December 28, 1812, died at Kalamazoo, 
Mich., April 6, 1857. He married, at Stockholm, N. Y., 
January 21, 1833, Laura M. Johnson. They had six 
children. 

751. CARLOS TYRRELL^ (Jerusha Hinsdale" Aaron^ Joseph^ 

Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert*), son of Stephen Sanford Tyr- 
rell and Jerusha Hinsdale, his wife, born April 14, 1816, 
married December 2, 1847, at Rives, Mich., Catherine 
Brown, born July 1, 1825, at Auburn, N. Y, They had 
two children. 

752. ORIN F. TYRRELL^ (Jerusha Hmsdale" Aaron' Joseph* 

Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert*), son of Stephen Sanford 
Tyrrell and Jerusha Hinsdale, his wife, bom at Monk- 
ton, Vt., April 14, 1816, married at Harrisburg, Vt., May 
23, 1840, Susanna Place of St. George, Vt., born August 
31, 1816, at Hinesbm-g, Vt. They had eight children. 

753. JANE DELIA TYRRELL^ (Jerusha Hinsdale" Aaron' 

Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert*), daughter of Ste- 
phen Sanford T}Trell and Jerusha Hinsdale, his wife, 
born September 23, 1832, at Monkton, Vt., married at 
Covington, N. Y., February 24, 1841, William Northup. 



282 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

born March 6, 1820, at Herkimer, N. Y. He died October 
8, 1892. They had ten children. 

754. CAROLINE CELESTIA TYRRELL^ (Jerusha Hinsdale« 

Aaron^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Roberti), daughter of 
Stephen Sanford Tyrrell and Jerusha Hinsdale, his 
wife, born at Ferrisburg, Vt., March 10, 1826, died at 
Kalamazoo, Mich., December 20, 1865, and was buried 
there. She married July 5, 1853, at Indianapohs, Ind., 
Jared Arnold, who was born at Haddam, Conn., August 
16, 1809, and died at Providence, R. I., April 6, 1884. 
He was warden in the hospital at Buffalo, N. Y., for more 
than a year. He left there m the spring of 1863. ]\Iany 
soldiers were brought there and the place was a difficult 
one, owing to the amoimt of work to be done, the scarcity 
of funds, the wretched way in which the business depart- 
ment was managed, and the many defects in the building, 
Mrs. Arnold assisted her husband, and to quote Dr. Miner, 
the head siu^geon, a man whom Europeans regarded as our 
most skillful American siu-geon, "She was worth any two 
doctors on the staff." "She was the embodiment of 
courage, sense and skill," he said, "a tower of strength." 
This is a noble tribute, as he never said a word of praise 
that was not earned again and again. Mrs. Arnold had 
a bright, keen wit. She was a school teacher of great 
ability, her explanations being easily understood. 

Children : 

1371. i. SUSAN BRAINARD, (Doctor), born at Detroit, Mich., 

June 2, 1854; married Beaumont Parks. 

1372. ii. CAROLINE, bom at Auburn, N. Y., July 15, 1855; died 

there Aug. 2, 1855. 

1373. iii. ISABEL SWARTWOOD, bom at Elmira, N. Y., Nov. 

22, 1858; she is a teacher, the head of a large school at 
Plainfield, N. J., with which she has been connected 
since about 1880; she possesses a large share of her 
mother's wit and humor. 

1374. iv. CAROLINE TYRRELL, born at Elizabethport, N. J., 

Nov. 30, 1860; is a teacher in the Bryant and Stratton 
Business College at Buffalo, N. Y., where she has been 
employed since about 1885; she inherited her mother's 
gift for teaching, and is very successful in her vocation. 

755. AMANDA MINERVA TYRRELL^ (Jerusha Hinsdale' 

Aaron^ Joseph^ Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter 



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of Stephen Sanford Tyrrell and Jerusha Hinsdale, his wife, 
born at Monkton, Vt., October 15, 1829, died at Rives, 
Mich., April 4, 1865, She married April 28, 1846, at Rives, 
Henry H. Cronkhite, born December 6, 1824, died Jan- 
uary 24, 1881. They had five children. 

756. MARY LUCINDA TYRRELL^ (Jerusha Hinsdale" Aaron^ 

Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert'), daughter of Ste- 
phen Sanford Tyrrell and Jerusha Hinsdale, his wife, 
born at Stockholm, N. Y., October 25, 1832; married at 
Detroit, Mich., October 7, 1853, Reverend Theodoric 
RoMEYN Palmer, born at Litchfield, N. Y., December 6, 
1829. They reside at National City, Cal. 

Child: 

1375. i. EDWIN SHELBY, born at Shelbyville, Ky., May 27, 

1856, died Aug. 9, 1881, at Boulder, Colo.; he was a young 
man of great promise and a universal favorite. 

757. THALIA DEAN^ (Betsey Hinsdale" Aaron^ Joseph* 

Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert'), daughter of Arza Crane 
Dean and Betsey Hinsdale, his wife, born at Monkton, 
Vt., October 17, 1818, married there, March 10, 1840, 
Medad H. Hurlbut, who was born at Charlotte, Vt. 
They were both lost September 24, 1856, in the burning 
of the Steamer Niagara on Lake Michigan. Their bodies 
were never recovered. 

Children, born at Monkton, Vt. : 

1376. i. GEORGE, died at Monkton, at the age of five months. 

1377. ii. ARTHUR DEAN, bom May 24, 1842; married twice. 

1378. iii. HENRY LEWIS, born Nov. 14, 1845; died at Ferris- 

burg, Vt., Mar. 20, 1864; unmarried; was a soldier in 
the Civil War. 

758. LEWIS DENNISON DEAN^ (Betsey Hinsdale" Aaron^ 

Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Arza Crane 
Dean and Betsey Hinsdale, his wife, born at Monk- 
ton, Vt., October 17, 1820, died by accidental drowning 
in Lake Michigan, near Manistee, Mich., November 26, 
1850. He married at Grand Rapids, Mich., June 30, 
1845, Althea Fay Hinsdale (No. 631), who was born 
at Ithaca, N. Y., April 11, 1821, and died at Monkton, 
Vt., November 24, 1853, daughter of Hiram Hinsdill and 
Roxalany Walbridge, his wife. 



284 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Children, born at Cannonsburg, Mich.: 

1379. i. ELLEN JEANNETTE, bom Apr. 8, 1846; umnarried. 

1380. ii. ERNEST HINSDILL, bom Apr. 2, 1848; died at Can- 

nonsburg, July 25, 1848. 

759. EMILY DEAN ^ (Betsey Hinsdale" Aaron^ Joseph* Isaac' 
Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter of Arza Crane Dean 
and Betsey Hinsdale, his wife, born at ]\Ionkton, Vt., 
June 12, 1822. She married at Monkton, March 17, 1841, 
Charles Prindle, who was born April 25, 1844, and died 
at Charlotte, Vt., August 6, 1884. 

Children : 

1381. i. GIDEON DEAN, born Dec. 1, 1843; married Sarah Jane 

Renfro. 

1382. ii. LEWIS CHARLES, born Mar. 18, 1847; married Jane 

Charity Clark. 

1383. iii. ERNEST HINSDALE, born June 14, 1851; married 

Frances Cornelia Andrews. 

1384. iv. GEORGE WILLL\M, bom Apr. 12, 1858; married Jen- 

nie Marsh Byington. 

762. CLEORA DEAN^ (Betsey Hinsdale" Aaron^ Joseph* 

Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert'), daughter of Arza Crane 
Dean and Betsey Hinsdale, his wife, born at Monkton, Vt., 
Jan. 31, 1832, married at Monkton, Dec. 3, 1850, Martin 
B. TiADD, who was born at Monkton, Nov. 29, 1829. 
They lived at West Salem, Wis., in 1896. 

Children, born at Farmington, Wis., 

1385. i. THALIA ELIZA, born Apr. 11, 1857; married EUis Pur- 

ple. 

1386. ii. ROBERT ANDERSON, born Mar. 20, 1860; married. 

1387. iii. HELEN KATE, bom Mar. 10, 1862; married Eugene 

A. Sherwin. 

763. HELEN A. DEAN' (Betsey Hinsdale^ Aaron^ Joseph* 

Isaac^ Barnabas^ RobertO, daughter of Arza Crane Dean 
and Betsey Hinsdale, his wife, l)orn at Monkton, Vt., 
August 12, 1834, died at MinneapoHs, Minn. ; she married, 
Oct. 10, 1853, at Monkton, Cassius C. Palmer, who was 
born at Underbill, Vt., July 21, 1832, and died at Onolas- 
ka, Wis., June 22, 1885. 

Children : 

1388. i. ARTHUR DEAN, born at Mindon, Wis., Oct. 31, 1854; 

died there Nov. 4, 1855. 



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1389. ii. CHARLES M., bom at Mindon, Oct. 3, 1856; married 

Mary SUl. 

1390. iii. EMMA E., born at Mindon, Oct. 2, 1859; married Mat- 

thew C. Moore of Milwaukee, Wis., where they are en- 
gaged in pubUshing several trade papers; Mrs. Moore 
is editor and her husband manager of "Packages," a 
paper published by the Packages Publishing Co., Mil- 
waukee. She was associate editor of the Northwestern 
Miller in 1896, at Minneapolis. 

1391. iv. GEORGE S., bom at Mindon, Feb. 24, 1863; died Aug., 

1903; married Sept. 14, 1892, at Duluth, Minn., Maude 
Cameron; he was manager of the Minkato Milling Co., 
of Duluth, in 1896. He left a widow and one child, Con- 
stance, born about 1897. 

1392. V. NELLIE DEAN, born at West Salem, Wis., Apr. 25, 

1871 ; married Dec. 31, 1903, James H. Taylor, a banker 
of Jasper, Minn. She was living at Minneapolis in 1896. 

764. MARION' LOUISE HINSDILL ^ (Myron« Aaron^ Jo- 
. seph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert*), daughter of Myron 
Hinsdill and Emily Kellogg, his wife, l^orn at Hinesburg, 
Vt., July 9, 1829, was married, at Grand Rapids, Mich., 
December 24, 1845, by Rev. James Ballard, to Honorable 
Solomon Lewis Withey, who was born at St. Albans, 
Vt., April 21, 1820, and died at San Diego, Cal., April 25, 
1886, and was buried at Grand Rapids, Mich. He studied 
law at Grand Rapids; was admitted to the bar in 1843, 
and practiced his profession there for about twenty years. 
At one time he was Judge of Probate. In 1863 he was 
appointed by President Lincoln, United States District 
Judge for the Western District of Michigan, which office 
he held imtil his death. He held at various times im- 
portant offices of trust in his city and state in business, 
church and society. He was an active member of the 
First Congregational Church. He was an excellent law- 
yer and a learned and just Judge. Mrs. Withey has been 
identified with various public movements in the city of 
Grand Rapids. She was an earnest worker for the sol- 
diers during the Civil War. She has been for more than 
twenty years Vice-President of the Union Benevolent Asso- 
ciation of Grand Rapids, a promoter of various city chari- 
ties, one of the originators of the Ladies' Literary club, 
and also of the Ladies' Library, out of which has growm 
the Public Library of the city. She has been for years 



286 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

an active worker in the First Congregational Church, 
which was one of the first organized in Grand Rapids, in 
the dining-room of her father's house. The influence of 
Judge and Mrs. Withey was widely extended and always 
exercised for good. 

Children, born at Grand Rapids, Mich. : 

1393. i. LEWIS HINSDALE, bom Jan. 21, 1847; married Mar- 

garet McQuean or McQuen. 

1394. ii. ADELAIDE MARION, born Dec. 30, 1848; died Jan 1, 

1853. 

1395. iii. EDWARD WILLIAM, bom Dec. 25, 1852; married 

Emma Lyon. 

1396. iv. CHESTER HENRY, bom June 15, 1855; married Mary 

Kelso. 

1397. V. ELEANOR M., bom June 5, 1858; married WiUis B. WU- 

lard. 

1398. vi. CHARLES SHEPARD, bora Feb. 3, 1867; married Mar- 

guerite Conant. 

767. COLONEL CHESTER BINGHAM HINSDILL' (My- 
ron* Aaron^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^), son of 
Myron Hinsdill and Emily Kellogg, his wife, born at Kala- 
mazoo, Mich., September 4, 1835, died at Grand Rapids, 
Mich., July 4, 1901, married, September 16, 1868, at Cleve- 
land, 0., Julie Eldredge Matthews, born at Holly, 
N. Y., September 16, 1843, daughter of William Henry 
Ho wells ■Matthews and Betsey Eldredge, his wife, who 
were married at Clarkson, N. Y., Dec. 27, 1830. Ches- 
ter B. Hinsdill joined the Union Army in the Civil War 
and was made Captain Commissary of Subsistence, Au- 
gust 16; 1861, Lieutenant-Colonel, April 9, 1863 to July 
7, 1865, Brevet-Major and Lieutenant-Colonel of Volun- 
teers, March 13, 1865, for meritorious service in his de- 
partment during the War; was honorably mustered out 
July 7, 1865. 

From a Grand Rapids, Mich., paper: 
"Col. Chester B. Hinsdell, the quartermaster of the 
Soldiers' Home, died at 11:30 last evening at the home of 
his son-in-law, Charles Fox, on Cherry Street. Mr. Hins- 
dell had been ill for several weeks and more than two 
weeks ago it was seen by his friends that the struggle for 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 287 

life was hopeless, and that death was only a matter of 
days. 

"Born in 1836, he assisted in the formation of the Old 
Third cavalry in Grand Rapids at the breaking out of the 
Civil War. Going to the front as Captain, he rose to the 
rank of Colonel and was mustered out in July, 1865. He 
served as Clerk of the United States District Court for the 
western district of Michigan for several years, and was in 
1891 appointed Quartermaster of the Soldiers' Home which 
position he held at the time of his death. Colonel Hins- 
dell leaves a widow and one daughter, Mrs. Charles Fox. 
to mourn his death. 

"The funeral will be held to-morrow afternoon from 
413 Cherry Street, and will be under the auspices of the 
Loyal Legion. The officers and old soldiers at the home 
will take no active part in the ceremony, but a large 
number of them will attend to pay their last tribute to a 
man whom they all Icnew and respected. 

"The Grand River Valley Old Settlers' Association will 
meet at the court house at 3 o'clock to-morrow afternoon 
to attend the funeral." 

Child: 

1399. i. CORINNE, born July 27, 1870; married Charles Fox. 

768. HONORABLE HENRY MYRON HINSDILL ^ (My- 
ron® Aaron^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^), son 
of M3n'on Hinsdill and Emily Kellogg, his wife, born at 
Grand Rapids, Mich., March 19, 1837, is said to have 
been the second white child born there. He was married 
at Grand Rapids, April 14, 1862, by Rev. S. N. Greeley, 
to Mary French Jewett, born March 13, 1842, only 
daughter of Henry and Mary Jewett. . She is of Piu-itan 
stock and a direct descendant of Peregrine White of "Pil- 
grim Father" fame. Mr. Hinsdill's early life and boy- 
hood were passed at Grand Rapids, where at the age of 
17, he became clerk in the book store of John Terhune, 
continuing with him for three years. At the end of that 
time, his employer's business was destroyed by fire, and 
he became Clerk in the Kent County Registrar's office, 
and later, salesman for the then well-known drygoods 
house of John Kendall & Co. Li 1859, he and his brother 



I 



288 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Chester opened a small book store in Grand Rapids, under 
the name of Hinsdill Bros. Henry was at first alone in 
the business, being proprietor, manager and clerk, 
doing air the work himself. Later a small boy was hired 
as clerk. The business prospered and the partnership 
continued for several years, when other partners were 
taken in and the busmess continued for a time under the 
style of Hinsdill Bros. & Co. From 1865 to 1867 Henry 
bought the interests of his brother and with other part- 
ners conducted the business under his own name for three 
years, during which time, it became the largest house of 
its kind in the State. In 1870, he sold out to Eaton & 
Lyon and entered the wholesale paper trade, manufac- 
tiuing also stationers' goods. This business proved very 
prosperous until 1873, when the "Great Panic" following 
the Civil War came on, and he, m common with nearly 
all others engaged in merchandismg and manufactiu-mg, 
went down and the labor and savings of years were swept 
in the general crash. In 1876, he was appomted United 
States Circuit Clerk and General Examiner in Equity and 
]\Iaster in Chancery for the Western District of Michigan , 
which position he held for ten years until the death of Judge 
Solomon L. Withey in 1886. In 1887, he engaged in man- 
ufacturing until 1889, when and his wife went to Seattle, 
Wash., where he dealt in real estate. The year following 
foimd them in Park City, Utah, where he filled the posi- 
tion of Secretary and Assistant Manager to the Crescent 
Mining Co. They stayed at that place for two years, 
after which, " owing to misfortunes of the Company and 
ill health of both himself and wife, they returned to IMich- 
igan. In 1898, Mr. Hinsdill was designated Special Attor- 
ney in the Department of Justice at Washington, D. C, 
and travelled constantly for two years in that capacity in 
seven of the Southern States, until the work assigned 
him was completed. Thereafter, he re-engaged in book 
selling, publishing and literary work, travelmg extensively 
in the South and Northwest representing two of the lead- 
ing publishing houses of the country. He and his wife 
united in 1859 with the First Congregational Church of 
Grand Rapids and that church connection has never been 
severed. Mr. Hinsdill is of an inventive tiun of mind 




MRS. MARY E. TRUAX 

No. 77."5 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 289 

and has taken out several patents, most of them pertain- 
ing to the book, stationery and kindred trades. Two of 
his inventions have had an extensive sale, one of which 
especially bearing his imprint, is now sold by booksellers 
everywhere in this country and abroad. Like many an- 
other inventor, he has not profited by them financially, 
except in a small degree, but takes a reasonable pride in 
the fact that to some extent, at least, his devices have 
added to the convenience of readers and writers. Mr, 
and Airs. Hinsdill having no children, have been per- 
mitted to travel much together in their own America and 
have visited nearly every State in the Union, often re- 
maining in representative towns, cities and localities for 
a considerable time, thus gaining a knowledge of things, 
social, general and geographical, not afforded to hasty 
tomists. Dining all of the vicissitudes of fortune, they 
have been separated but little. Their joys and sorrows 
have been shared together, a privilege not afforded to aU 
lives so circumstanced. Their present residence is at 
Grand Rapids. 

773. MARY ELIZABETH RICE' (Sophia Hinsdale** Aaron^ 
Joseph^ Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter of John 
Rice and his first wife, Sophia Hinsdale, born at Cory- 
don, Ind., August 8, 1836, was married by Rev. J. P. 
Safford, D. D., at New Albany, Ind., to Reverend Wil- 
liam B. Truax of Chicago, 111., who was born at Paoli, 
Orange County, Ind., March 7, 1829, and died at Perth 
Amboy, N. J., February 23, 1885. He was a graduate of 
Hanover College, Hanover, Ind., and in 1861, of thePres- 
b\i:erian Theological Seminary of the Northwest at Chicago, 
111., now McCormick Seminary. From 1867 to 1872 he 
was General Agent and Financial Secretary of the Presby- 
terian Theological Seminary of the Northwest. From 
1872 to 1877 he was Superintendent of Education among 
the Indians in New Mexico and Arizona. In 1878 and 
1879 he was a teacher at Paoh, Ind., and in 1881 and 1882 
Pastor of the Presb>i;erian Church at Cherry vale, Kan. 
Dining most of his ministerial life he labored with marked 
success in the line of educational work, but from 1869 he 
was greatly trammeled by disease, consumption, from which 



290 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

he died, having finished a most useful and upright 
Christian hfe. Mrs. Truax was educated at a Ladies' 
Seminary at New Albany, Ind., and at the Baptist College 
at Kalamazoo, Mich. She taught for several years before 
marriage. Having a taste for business, she greatly assisted 
her husband as clerk, amanuensis and coj^^ist, as disease 
laid its heavy hand upon him. 

To Mrs. Truax is due the credit of suggesting, as well as 
promoting by her constant and miremitting effort the 
compilation of this genealogy, for without her valuable 
aid in gathering material for the work it could never have 
been completed in its present form. 

775. LYDIA ANN RICE' (Sophia Hinsdale* Aaron^ Joseph^ 

Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter of John Rice and his 
first wife, Sophia Hinsdale, born at Corydon, Ind., April 
22, 1840, was married at Crawfordsville, by Rev. R. F. 
Caldwell, September 6, 1871, to Alfred Ryors of Bloom- 
ington, Ind. 

Child: 

1400. i. ERNEST HINSDALE, (Doctor), bom at Bloomington, 

111., Aug. 15, 1872; graduate of the Salt Lake Collegiate 
Institute, Salt Lake City, Utah, and, June 25, 1896, of 
the Medical Department of the University of Michigan; 
became a practicing physician at Lapeer, Mich., Sept., 
1896. 

776. SUSAN HUNTINGTON RICE ' (Sophia Hinsdale" Aaron* 

Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter of John 
Rice and his first wife, Sophia Hmsdale, born at Cory- 
don, Ind., May 11, 1842, was married at Crawfordsville, 
Ind., by Rev. John Safford, May 14, 1874, to Colonel 
Robert Ellis Bryant, who was born at Washington, 
D. C, June 5, 1827. He was a soldier in the Mexican 
War, and for three years in the Civil War. Having gone 
in as Captain, he came out as Lieutenant-Colonel. He 
was a prominent man in church and town affairs. 

Children, born at Crawfordsville, Ind. : 

1401. i. EDITH ELLEN, bom July 24, 1875; was married at 

Crawfordsville, Ind., by Rev. C. H. Wilson, D. D., June 
8, 1904, to Chase Harding, born at Craw^ordsx'ille, Ind., 
Jan. 29, 1875; he graduated at Wabash College June, 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 291 

1896; lawyer; was a soldier in the Spanish-American 
War. 
1402. ii. FRANK H., bom May 24, 1877; graduate of Wabash 
College, Crawfordsville, Ind., June, 1897; was clerk in 
Simons Hardware Store, St. Louis, Mo., in 1898; in 
1905, Manager Advertising Department of the Central 
Electric Company, 71 Maple St., Chicago, 111. 

777. THEODORE FRELINGHUYSEN RICE ' (Sophia Hinsdale' 
Aaron'' Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert'), son of John 
Rice and his first wife, Sophia Hinsdale, born at 
Corydon, Ind., May 7, 1844, married at Chicago, 111., 
September 19, 1871, Edith M. Price, who was born 
at Quincy, 111., April 21, or September 7, 1854, daughter 
of William and Arnia Price. He served three years in the 
Quartermaster's Ordnance and Engineer departments dur- 
ing the Civil War. On leaving the army, he settled in 
Chicago, 111. For a few months he was in the Ufe insur- 
ance business, and later for some months in Bradstreet's 
Commercial Agency. He exchanged the later position 
for one with Bradner, Smith & Co., paper manufacturers 
and wholesale dealers in paper, which position he held 
for thirty-five years, or since 1866. For twenty-five 
years he was Vice-piesident of the company, which is one 
of the largest in its line of business in the country. Mr. 
Rice is a member of the Sixth Presbyterian Church of 
Chicago, and has been an Elder in that church since 1878. 

Children, born at Chicago, lU. : 

1403. i. ANN GILL, bom Apr. 22, 1873; died same day. 

1404. ii. EDITH CYNTHLENE, bom May 30, 1874. 

1405. iii. WILLIMI PRICE, bom Feb. 18, 1877. 

1406. iv. ROBERT HINSDALE, bom Jan. 1, 1879; graduate of 

Princeton University, June, 1901. 

1407. V. HENRY HURLBUT, bom Feb. 27, 1880. 

1408. vi. OILMAN SMITH, bom Dec. 27, 1882; died May 3, 1883. 

1409. vii. THEODORE, bom Oct. 5, 1889. 

1410. viii. GORDON, bom June 21, 1896. 

779. MARY ANN FABRIQUE' (Louisa Hinsdale" Aaron^ 
Joseph^ Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter of Hen- 
ry Lewis Fabrique and Louisa Hinsdale, his wife, 
born at Cincinnati, O., June 8, 1824, died December 21, 
1882, at Kewanee, 111. She married December 24, 1846, 



292 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

at Corydon, Ind., Dudley G. Byrn, born April 6, 1814, 
in Harrison County, Ind., died November 26, 1876, at 
New Albany, Ind., son of David and Damaris Byrn. 

Children: 

1411. i. DAVID HENRY, bom at Corydon, Ind., Oct. 2, 1848. 

1412. ii. LOUISA DAMARIS, bom at New Albany, Ind., Sept. 

21,1851. 

1413. iii. THOMAS WILLIAM, bom at New Albany, Feb. 28, 

1854; died at Kewanee, 111., Aug. 6, 1887. 

1414. iv. SUSAN EMMA, bom at New Albany, April 18, 1859; 

married, Sept. 19, 1894, Willard I. Clark of Peoria, 111. 

1415. V. ANNA COMLEY, born at New Albany, Apr. 20, 1860; 

died at Kewanee, 111., Mar. 21, 1882. 

1416. vi. DUDLEY ANDREW, bom at New Albany, June 25, 

1863; died at Kewanee, 111., May 28, 1882. 

1417. vii. EDWIN HINSDALE, born Apr. 22, 1868; died Feb. 

22. 1869. 

780. EMILY LUCINDA FABRIQUE' (Louisa Hinsdale" 
Aaron^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert*), daughter 
of Henry Lewis Fabrique and Louisa Hinsdale, his wife, 
born at Manckport, Ind., September 3, 1827, married, 
November 19, 1849, Myron Hinsdale, and died at Toledo, 
Iowa, August 19, 1887, aged 60. She is buried at Kewanee, 
111. She was a woman of remarkable attraction of person 
and manners, with elegance of form, a beautiful coimte- 
nance, full of vivacity, of fine conversational powers, and 
a ready, sparkling wit. 

782. NANCY MARIA FABRIQUE' (Louisa Hinsdale" Aaron^ 
Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert'), daughter of Henry 
Lewis Fabrique and Louisa Hinsdale, his wife, born 
at Manckport, Ind., April 12, 1832, married at Corydon, 
Ind., October 28, 1853, Jacob Hisey, Jr., born in Harri- 
son Coimty, Ind., January 28, 1827, died at Los Angeles, 
Cal., July 3, 1889, son of Jacob and Abigail Hisey. 

Children : 

1418. i. A son, born and died Jan. 22, 1855. 

1419. ii. HENRY FABRIQUE, born at Corydon, Ind., Dec. 24, 

1856; died at Pueblo, Col., Sept. 9, 1875. 

1420. iii. MARY EMMA, born June 12, 1860; married I. C. GofT. 

1421. iv. LOUISA HINSDALE, born May 20,1864; married twice. 

1422. V. WILLIAM NEWELL, born Apr. 12, 1867. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 293 

785. MYRON DUDLEY FABRIQUE ' (Louisa HinsdaleOAaron' 

Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Henry- 
Lewis Fabrique and Louisa Hinsdale, his wife, born 
at Corydon, Ind., Jvme 22, 1839, married at Moline, 
111., May 15, 1867, Jane E. Holcomb, born November 
28, 1844. He was a soldier for three years in an Illinois 
Regiment of Infantry. He is a druggist at Chester, Neb. 

Children : 

1423. i. EDWIN HOLCOMB, born at Kewanee, 111., Mar. 26, 

1868. 

1424. ii. HENRY LEWIS, born at Kewanee, Aug. 24, 1872. 

1425. iii. MARIAN LUCY, born at Edford, 111., Jan. 26, 1874; 

married at Chester, 111., Feb. 2, 1896, Charles S. Lasby, 
born at Guelph, Canada, Oct. 4, 1873. 

1426. iv. MABEL ALICE, bom at Brookfield, Mo., Aug. 18, 1875. 

786. MAJOR ANDREW HINSDALE FABRIQUE' (Louisa 

Hinsdale' Aaron^ Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert^, 
son of Henry Lewis Fabrique and Louisa Hinsdale, 
his wife, born at Corydon, Ind., September 9, 1842, mar- 
ried, September 26, 1866, Sallie Philler, born Novem- 
ber 26, 1842. He resides at Wichita, Kan., and is a physi- 
cian. He enlisted in the Union Army, April 29, 1861, in 
the 53rd Indiana Regiment, and was mustered out as 
Major of 53rd Volunteer Infantry, July 19, 1865. He 
fought at Corinth and Hatchie River; was in Grant's 
Campaign through Mississippi and at the seige and sur- 
render of Vicksbm-g; was in campaign from Natchez to 
Harrisonburg and the campaign into the interior from 
Vicksbm-g, then from Clifton to Big Shanty, and thence 
to Atlanta, participatmg in the battles at Kenesaw ]\Ioim- 
tain, Nickajack, Peach Tree Creek, and before Atlanta 
and at Jonesboro; thence on the campaign to Savannah, 
fightmg in various battles in Sherman's "march to the sea." 
Was a noble and brave soldier and officer and remained 
with the army until the close of the War. At Fayette- 
ville, N. C, he saw the name of "Hinsdale" on a house 
and ordered that family to be left unmolested, which was 
done. 

Child: 

1427. i. MARTHA LEE, married at Memphis, Tenn., Nov., 16, 

1892, George Thomas Nolley. 



294 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

788. WILLIAJM ALEXANDER FABRIQUE' (Louisa Hinsdale' 
Aaron* Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas' Robert'), son of Henry 
Lewis Fabrique and Louisa Hinsdale, his wife, born 
October 17, 1845, married, October 26, 1871, Mary 
E. Clayton, who was born October 24, 1853, daughter of 
Ashford and Jemima Clayton. He served three years in 
the 53rd Regiment of Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and 
participated in nearly all the battles with his brother An- 
drew, marching with Sherman to the sea, and was mus- 
tered out August 3, 18G5. 

Children : 

1428. i. EMMA LOUISE, bom July 29, 1872; died Feb. 20, 1874. 

1429. ii. CORA JANE, born Mar. 15, 1874. 

1430. iii. HENRY LOUIS, bom Aug. 12, 1876. 

1431. iv. HARVEY HINSDALE, bom Dec. 1, 1878. 

1432. V. NANNIE LOUISE, born Dec. 20, 1880. 

1433. vi. ALBERT DUDLEY, born Oct. 13, 1882. 

1434. vii. LUCY AGNES, bom Dec. 5. 1885. 

790. LIEUTENANT SOLON HINSDILL FINNEY' (Sarah 
Hinsdill' Aaron* Joseph* Isaac ^ Barnabas' Robert'), 
son of Myron Finney and Sarah HmsdUl, his wife, born 
at Monkton, Vt., May 23, 1827, died at Burkesville Station, 
Va., April 9, 1865. He was married by Rev. S. L. StiU- 
man, October 17, 1853, to Mariette E. Barstow, w^ho 
was born at Shelbm-ne, Vt., December 10, 1825, daughter 
of He man Barstow and Loram Lyon, his wife, and died at 
Kansas City, January, 1905. He enlisted for three years 
in the Civil War, September 20, 1862, as 5th Sergeant 
in Company E, 6th Michigan Cavalry Volunteers. He 
was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant, July, 1864, and was in 
command of Company H at the time he was wounded, 
April 3, 1865, which resulted in his death, April 9, 1865. 
He was one of the heroes of the war. He risked his own 
life to save that of one of his wounded men left on the 
field of battle, and both were killed by rebel sharp-shoot- 
ers. 

Children, born at Easton, Mich.: 

1435. i. HENRY LESTER STARKS, bom Aug. 14, 1854; mar- 

ried Lillie L. Stimpson. 

1436. ii. LAFAYETTE HINSDILL, bora Sept. 14, 1857; mar- 

ried Nettie A. Sanborn. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 295 

791. ORSON OVETTE FINNEY' (Sarah Hinsdill" Aaron » 

Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Myron 
Finney and Sarah Hinsdill, his wife, born at Hinesburg, 
Vt., July 8, 1833, died at Cohoes, N. Y., November 7, 
1867. He married, at Whiting, Vt., October 5, 1859, 
Marion Amanda TYRRELL,who was born at Hinesburg, 
Vt., February 1, 1837, and died at Winooski, Vt., May 5, 
1891. The father of Mrs. Finney was a brother of Stephen 
Sanford Tyrrell, who married Jerusha Hinsdale. The name 
of this family is also spelled Turrill. 

Child: 

1437. i. JENNIE LOUISE, bom at" Cohoes, N. Y., Sept. 18, 1863; 

married, Apr. 5, 1885, Henry Elmer Clement, who was 
born at Morristown, Vt., Sept. 22, 1861; they live at 
Thomas ville, N. C; they have had but one child, which 
died at birth. 

792. SARAH JANE FINNEY' (Sarah Hinsdill" Aaron' Joseph* 

Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert'), daughter of Myron Finney 
and Sarah Hinsdill, his wife, born at Hinesburg, 
Vt., July 21, 1837, died at Kalamazoo, Mich., March 9, 
1863. She was married at Williston, Vt., October 10, 
1860, by Rev. J. W. Hough, to Captain Robert F. Jud- 
SON, who was born at Litchfield, Conn., September 26, 
1826, and died at Kalamazoo, Mich., November 11, 1887. 
He was a lawyer by profession and practiced many years 
at Kalamazoo. He enlisted in the Union Army in August, 
1862, and was honorably discharged October 7, 1864. He 
was Captain in the 5th Michigan Cavalry. She was a 
woman of rare mental endowments, having been a suc- 
cessful teach6r in her native state, and for two years a 
teacher in the Female Department of Kalamazoo College, 
She was of a cheerful, hopeful disposition, a lover of chil- 
dren, and a model wife and mother. The whole family 
are buried in the beautiful Mountain Home Cemetery at 
Kalamazoo. 

Children, born at Kalamazoo, Mich. : 

1438. i. MARY EFFIE, born Aug. 25, 1861; died at Detroit, 

Mich., Jan. 30, 1864. 

1439. ii. JENNIE FINNEY, born Mar. 9, 1863; died at Kalama- 

zoo, Apr. 7. 1863. 



296 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

794. MYRON HINSDILL FINNEY' (Sarah Hinsdill« Aaron = 

Joseph' Isaac^ Barnabas- RobertO, son of Myron Fmney 
and Sarah Hinsdill, his wife, born at Hinesburg Vt., 
November 12, 1846, married at Springfield, O., Novem- 
ber 18, 1875, Sarah Elizabeth Barton, who was born 
at Enon, Clarl<; County, 0., November 7, 1847, and died 
September, 1904. He lived on a farm near Hinesbm'g, 
Vt., mitil 1874. From 1875 to 1884 he was teller in the 
Howard National Bank, at Burlington, Vt. He resigned 
this position to become cashier of the First National Bank 
at Le Mars, la. This latter position he resigned Septem- 
ber 1, 1889, and was made Cashier of the German- Ameri- 
can Savings Bank at Le Mars, la., which position he held 
in 1897. In 1895, he read a paper before the Iowa Bank- 
ers' Convention, which was published in the "American 
Banker" and gave him prominence among the leading 
financiers of his adopted state. 

Children, born and died at Burlington, Vt. : 

1440. i. MARY BARTON, born June 10, 1879; died Dec. 24, 1879. 

1441. ii. BARTON HINSDILL, bom June 3, 1883; died Oct. 11, 

1883. 

795. AARON HINSDALE BUIE ' (Nancy Hinsdale Aaron ^ 

Joseph' Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Archibald 
Buie and Nancy Hinsdale, his wife, born in Frank- 
lin County, Miss., February 25, 1847, was married in 
Franklin County, Miss., by Judge T. A. Magee, Decem- 
ber 23 or 28, 1868, to Virginia Caroline Hebra, who 
was born in Germany, October 16, 1847. 

Children : 

1442. i. WILLIAM JEFFERSON, born Dec. 18, 1869; married 

Victoria Fuston. 

1443. ii. EDWIN HINSDALE, born in Franklin County, Miss., 

Apr. 29, 1872. 

1444. iii. AUGUSTUS HEBRA, born at Milford, Ellis Co., Tex., 

Dec. 24, 1874. 

1445. iv. JOHN ARCHIBALD, born at Waxahachie, Ellis Co., 

Texas, July 22, 1877. 

1446. V. CHARLES TILFORD, born at Crisp, Ellis Co., Tex., 

Nov. 9, 1879. 

1447. vi. MARY ELIZABETH, born at Crisp, Sept. 15, 1882. 

1448. vii. ROBERT BUCKNER, born at Crisp, Nov. 29, 1884. 

1449. viii. JOHN CLAYTON, born at Crisp, Feb. 1, 1887. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 297 

1450. ix. A son, born and died at Crisp, Dec. 22, 1889. 

1451. X. VICTOR CUNNINGHAM, born at Crisp, Aug. 18, 1891. 

796. CHARLES HINSDALE WALKER' (Mary Ann Hinsdale « 

Aaron ^ Joseph* Isaac ^ Barnabas^ Robert^), son of Charles 
Irish Walker and Mary Ann Hmsdale, his wife, born 
at Detroit, Mich., July 3, 1854, married at Ann Arbor, 
Mich,, February, 1878, M. Louise Hall. He was living 
in Costa Rica in 1879. 

Child: 

1452. i. CHARLOTTE HINSDALE, born Feb. 14, 1880. 

797. CAPTAIN CLEMENT WALKER STONE ' (Lucinda Hins- 

dale° Aaron^ Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert*), son 
of Reverend James Andrus Blinn Stone and Lucinda 
Hinsdale, his wife, born at Gloucester, Mass., May 30, 
1841, died at Kalamazoo, Mich., October 3, 1887. He 
was married at Mooreville, Mich., by his father. Rev. 
James A. B. Stone, October 12, 1863, to Caroline Moore, 
who was born January 16, 1839. He enlisted in the Union 
Army, August 20, 1861, and was mustered out, August 
7, 1864. He was Captain of a Company in the 6th Michi- 
gan Infantry, which was afterwards changed to the 1st 
Regiment of Heavy Artillery. He was in the battles of 
Baton Rouge, Cotton and Port Hudson. 

Children : 

1453. i. CHARLES PEIRCE, born Dec. 24, 1869; married Louise 

Marie Schriner. 

1454. ii. LUCILE, born at Roscommon, Mich., May 13, 1880. 

799. JAMES HELM STONE ' (Lucinda Hinsdale' Aaron'* Joseph* 
Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert'), son of Reverend James An- 
drus Blinn Stone and Lucinda Hinsdale, his wife, born 
at Kalamazoo, Mich., July 19, 1847, died at Detroit, Mich., 
January 13, 1904. He was married, at Plymouth, N. H., 
by Rev. J. A. B. Stone, D. D., and Rev. Mr. Scott, Decem- 
ber 3, 1879, to Margaret Clare Webster, who was born 
at Plymouth, N. H., July 28, 1858. He was U. S. Internal 
Revenue Collector for six years; was manager and editor 
of the Detroit Post and Tribmie, which he sold in 1881. 
He was always a high-toned, honorable gentleman. 



298 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

From a daily newspaper : 

"Detroit, January 14 — James Helm Stone, the eldest and 
last living son of Mrs. Lucinda Hinsdale Stone, and himself 
one of the best knowTi men in Michigan, died at his 
home in this city last night, after a lingering illness. 
From a messenger boy in the State Senate, he worked him- 
self up to the position of Secretary of the Senate and later 
held several important positions by presidential appoint- 
ment, besides making a long record as a newspaper man 
in this city. 

"He was born in Kalamazoo, July 19, 1847, and began 
his career first as reporter and then editor and owner of 
the Kalamazoo Telegraph. Later he bought the Port 
Huron Times. He eventually came to Detroit and be- 
came business manager and editor of the old Post and 
Tribune, selling the paper in 1881. Soon after he was 
appointed Collector of Internal Revenue, holding that posi- 
tion six years, and later became United States appraiser. 

"Since 1864 he had attended every important Republican 
convention, with one exception. He ran for Congress in 
1893, but was defeated by Levi T. Griffin. In spite of his 
connection with politics he never drank nor smoked. 

"The funeral will be held from the First Congregational 
Church Friday morning." 

Children, born at Detroit, Mich.: 

1455. i. WEBSTER, bom Oct. 24, 1881. 

1456. ii. LUCILE HINSDALE, born Feb. 19, 1883. 

1457. iii. BLINN, born Mar. 11, 1884. 

801. EDGAR HINSDALE' (GHes Seymour" Jacob^ Joseph^ 
Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert'), son of Giles Seymour 
Hinsdale and Rebecca Hoose, his wife, born February 14, 
1830, married at Biu-lington, Vt., January 1, 1857, Phebe 
A. Griswold, of Griswold Mills, N. Y., born February 
26, 1835. He died at St. George, Vt., May 16, 1901. 

Children : 

1458. i. HIRAM S., born at Sacramento, Cal., Jan. 17, 1858; mar- 

ried Mar. 19, 1879, Mary F. Bradley; had two children; 
Lillian B. Hinsdale, bom Jan. 16, 1883, who married > 
June 22, 1905, John Judd of Thetford, Vt.; Newton H. 
Hinsdale, bom Aug. 21, 1887. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 299 

1459. ii. FRANK E., bom Mar. 24, 1864; married Mar. 7, 1894, 

Emma L. Leonard, who was bom Aug. 19, 1867; their 
child, Lucy A. Hinsdale, was bom Aug. 30, 1902. 

1460. iii. FRED, bora Mar. 24, 1864; died 1898. 

1461. iv. CYNTHIA E., bom at Richmond, Vt., Aug. 29, 1867; 

married Sept. 23, 1894, Elmer E. Davis, bom Mar. 24, 
1864; their chUd, Wight Hinsdale Davis, was bom Dec. 
17, 1900. 

1462. V. SIDNEY E., born at Richmond, Vt., Aug. 29, 1867; 

married June, 1893, Ina Morse; their child, Mitchell W. 
Hinsdale, was bom Jan. 21, 1895. 

1463. vi. EMERSON M., born at St. George, Vt., May 6, 1869; 

married Lillian Wright, born at Hinesburg, Vt., Jan. 
17, 1874; they have three children: Madine Hins- 
dale, bom Dec. 3, 1898; Doris Hinsdale, bom Dec. 9, 
1900; Emerson Wright Hmsdale, bom Apr. 29, 1902. 

1464. vii. PHEBE A., born at Williston, Vt., Nov. 6, 1870; mar- 

ried Jan. 23, 1902, Theodore E. Hopkins, bom Jan. 27, 
1872; their child, Edith C. Hopkins, was bom Dec. 19, 
1902. 

1465. viii. GEORGE G., bom at WiUiston, Vt., Apr., 26, 1877. 

805. SEYMOUR S. HINSDALE' (GUes Seymour" Jacob'' 
Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^), son of Giles Sey- 
mour Hmsdale and Rebecca Hoose, his wife, born April 
23, 1841, married in 1866^ Elizabeth Cave. He went 
from Vermont to California in 1861, locating near Sacra- 
mento. He engaged in farming, and in 1905 is still at 
that occupation. His post office address is Clarksburg, 
Yolo County, Cal. 

Children : 

1466. i. HENRIETTA, born in 1867; married, 1897, C. A. Powers; 

lives in Sacramento, Cal.; no children. 

1467. ii. WALTER G., bom in 1869; married Christina I^rull. 

1468. iii. LESTER J., bom in 1870; unmarried. 

1469. iv. ARDENIA, born in 1873; lives at Clarksburg, Yolo Co., 

Cal. 

818. EUNICE PARSONS' (Stephen Parsons" Rhoda Hins- 
dale* Jonathan* Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert^), daughter of 
Deacon Stephen Parsons and Mary Eldredge, his wife, 
born at Goshen, Mass., March 18, 1813; married Novem- 
ber 27, 1834, Freeman Sears, who died at Goshen in 
1893. In 1838 he bought the farm at Goshen, that had 
belonged to his wife's grandfather. Elihu Parsons, Jr. 



300 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Children : 

1470 a. i. ELLEN, born Oct. 21, 1835; died Feb. 26, 1854. 

1471 b. ii. MARY, born Sept. 6, 1837; died May 27, 1861. 

1472 c. iii. OLIVE, born Jan. 20, 1840; married Jan. 14, 1860, 

Professor Henry C. Howland. 

1473 d. iv. F. WILLIS, born Aug. 21, 1842; married Kate SideU. 

1474 e. V. MILTON F., born Mar. 21, 1845; married Dec. 31. 

1872, Elizabeth H. Shaw. 

1475 f. vi. CHLOE EDNA, born Nov. 13, 1847; married July 6, 

1890, Sylvanus Talbert Johnson; resided at 14 Park 
Avenue, Chicago, 111., in 1897. 

822. HARRIET HINSDALE ' (Moses" David= Jonathan^ Isaac' 

Barnabas^ Robert'), daughter of Moses Hinsdale and his 
first wife, Rachel Hibbard, born at Pompey, N. Y., June 
3, 1805, died June 29, 1889. She married at Pompey, 
October 6, 1828, David Barber, born September 8, 1802, 
died January 21, 1867. 

Children : 

1470. i. MOSES HINSDALE, bom Jan. 29, 1830; married Adeline 

E. Waters. 

1471. ii. DANIEL GOTT, born Oct. 11, 1832; married Helen A. 

Lewis. 

1472. iii. ANN AMELIA, bom Mar. 8, 1839; died Dec. 16, 1840. 

1473. iv. MARY ETTE, born Nov. 9, 1841; married Cyrus G. 

Stafford. 

823. MARY HINSDALE ' (Moses" David' Jonathan^ Isaac" Bar- 

nabas^ Robert'), daughter of Moses Hhisdale and his 
first wife, Rachel Hibbard, born at Pompey, N. Y., June 
10, 1807, died April 6, 1863. She married at Pompey, 
October 6, 1828, John S. Wells, born May 30, 1803, died 
May 22, 1854. They are buried in Oakwood Cemetery, 
Syracuse, N. Y. 

Children, all born at Pompey, N. Y.: 

1474. i. DELOS ELIJAH, born Jan. 16, 1832; married Eliza 

Mitchell Macy. 

1475. ii. HARRIET ELIZA, born Aug. 26, 1833; married Henry 

Lyman Duquid. 
1470. iii. JOHN EMMET, born Dec. 15, 1839; married Marilda 
Pratt Dwight. 

824. ELIZA HINSDALE ' (Moses" David' Jonathan* Isaac' Bar- 

nabas' Robert'), daughter of Moses Hinsdale and his 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 301 

first wife, Rachel Hibbard, born at Pompey, N. Y., Octo- 
ber 26, 1809, married at Pompey, May 1, 1839, Leman 
Baker Pitcher, born January 30, 1809. They lived at 
Salina, Onondaga County, N. Y. They are buried in Oak- 
wood Cemetery, Syracuse, N. Y., lot 45, section 40. 

Child: 

1477. i. MARY ELIZA, bom Oct. 14, 1841; died Nov. 14, 1872. 

826. DAVID HIBBARD HINSDALE' (Moses' David» Jonathan* 

Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Moses Hinsdale and his 
first wife, Rachel Hibbard, born at Pompey, N. Y., April 
25, 1814, married at Pompey, April 11, 1839, Sophia 
Hatch Notes, born July 5, 1814. They lived at Manhus, 
Onondaga County, N. Y. 

Children : 

1478. i. SARAH ELIZABETH, bom May 13, 1842; married Frank- 

lin A. May. 

1479. ii. HENRY DAVID, bom May 13, 1842; married Dec. 8, 

1871, at Manlius, N. Y., Emma Hughes; they lived at 
Manlius. 

1480. iii. CARRIE SOPHIA, bom May 26, 1844. 

1481. iv. CHARLES AUGUSTUS, bom Nov. 21, 1860. 

827. STEPHEN HINSDALE' (Moses« David« Jonathan^ Isaac' 

Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Moses Hinsdale and his first 
wife, Rachel Hibbard, born at Pompey, N. Y., February 
14, 1816, died September 9, 1880. He married at Delphi, 
Onondaga County, N. Y., Mary Ann Barber, born June 
17, 1821. 

Children: 

1482. i. ELLEN ELIZABETH, bom June 19, 1843; married 

William H. DeLancey Clapp. 

1483. ii. IDA SARAH, bom Dec. 17, 1850; married William Tay- 

lor Scheide. 

1484. iii. WILLIAM MOSES, bom Apr. 7, 1858; married Bertha 

Eunice Somers. 

828. MYRAETTE H. HINSDALE' (Moses' David" Jonathan* 

Isaac ^ Barnabas" Robert^, daughter of Moses Hinsdale 
and his first wife, Rachel Hibbard, born at Pompey, N. Y., 
March 19, 1818, died August 13, 1883, at Kalamazoo, 
Mich. She married at Pompey, May 26, 1859, Dan Fair- 
banks, born February 14, 1807, died September 14, 1887. 



302 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Child: 

1485. i. EVELINE HINSDALE, bom Mar. 14, 1863. 

829. PERRY H. HINSDALE' (Moses* David' Jonathan^ Isaac' 
Barnabas- Robert'), son of Moses Hinsdale and his first 
wife, Rachel Hibbard, born at Pompey, N. Y., April 21, 
1820, married, first, at Salina, N. Y., January 13, 1847, 
Sarah Isabel Adams, born June 21, 1822. died Novem- 
ber 22, 1877. He married, second, December 11, 1879, 
the widow of Frederick W. Fenner, of Lysander, N. Y. 
They hved at Salina. Mr. Hinsdale, who is now nearly 
85, is the last of the ten children of Moses Hinsdale. 

Children : 

By his first wife, Sarah Isabel Adams. 

1486. i. MILES ADAMS, bom Mar. 23, 1851 ; married Ella Ham- 

ilton. 

1487. ii. CORA ETTA, bom Jan. 1, 1854; married Le Roy M. 

Dyer. 

1488. iii. LEMAN HUBBARD, bom May 10, 1856; married Char- 

lotte White Ringe. 

1489. iv. JOHN WELLS, bom Oct. 17, 1858. 

1490. V. SAMUEL WILLARD, bom Dec. 24, 1862. 

834. SUSAN HINSDALE ' (Chauncey" David' Jonathan* Isaac' 
Barnabas^ Robert'), daughter of Chauncey Hinsdale and 
Susanna Briggs, his wife, born at Otisco, N. Y., February 
23, 1813, died at Manlius, N. Y., Jime 21, 1859. She 
married at Pompey, N. Y., September 3, 1833, Nelson 
Caswell of Manlius. They lived at Manlius. 

Child: 

1491. i. MARY J., bom Apr. 11, 1835; married Philip Taylor 

BrowneU. 

839. ASAHEL BEMIS HINSDALE (HINSDELL)' (Asahel* 
David^ Jonathan* Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert'), son of 
Asahel Hinsdale and Hadassah Clapp, his wife, born 
October 21, 1810, married at Bath, Steuben County, N. Y., 
July 29, 1834, Eliza Inslee Hanks, born February 7, 
1812. They Hved at Elgin, Kane County, 111. When 
Asahel Bemis Hinsdale and Bernard, his brother, were 
left orphans they were brought up by a maiden aunt, 
not of the same name, who taught them to spell their 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 303 

names "Hmsdell/' which spelling has been followed in 
in this branch of the family to the present time. 

Children : 

1492. i. SOPHIA ELIZABETH, bom at Branchport, Yates Co., 

N. Y., Aug. 25, 1835; died Jan. 22, 1841. 

1493. ii. JEROME BRIGHAM, bom at Branchport, Jan. 29, 1838; 

died Sept. 20, 1838. 

1494. ill. ELLEN AMELIA, bom at Elgin, Kane Co., 111., June 

7,51841. 

1495. iv. FAROZINA ELIZABETH, bom at Elgin, July 25, 1844; 

died Apr. 20, 1857. 

1496. V. OLIVER ASAHEL, bom Oct. 11, 1846; married Har- 

riett A. Starr. 

1497. vi. HENRY CLARK, bom at Elgin, Jan. 6, 1851; died 

Sept. 12, 1851. 

840. BERNARD HINSDALE (HINSDELL) ' (AsaheP David« 

Jonathan* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^), son of Asahel 
Hinsdale and Hadassah Clapp, his wife, born October 
12, 1812, married Mary McCluskey, born April 15, 1829. 
They lived at Manteno, Shelby Coimty, 111. 

Children : 

1498. i. BARNEY, bom Nov. 22, 1857. 

1499. ii. ELIZABETH, bom Aug. 17. 1859. 

1500. iii. FRANCIS, bom Apr. 14, 1861. 

1501. iv. ASAHEL B., born Oct. 26, 1862. 

841. IRA HINSDALE' (David» Bstvid' Jonathan.^ Isaac' 

Barnabas^ Robert^, son of David Hinsdale, Jr. and 
Mary McCracken, his wife, born July 21, 1810, died 
June 26, 1849. He married at Camillus, N. Y., Decem- 
ber 28, 1835, Ann Peck, born April 3, 1816, by whom he 
had five children. She married, second, Justus Town- 
send. She died in 1878. Mr, Townsend survived her 
but a few days. 

Children : 

1502. i. MARY, bom Mar. 16, 1837; married Charles A. Baker. 

1503. ii. AARON YOUNGLOVE, bom July 31, 1839. 

1504. iii. DAVID B., bom May 23, 1841. 

1505. iv. IRA, bom June 18, 1843; married Helen J. Peck. 

1506. V. ALFRED L., bom Oct. 5, 1845; married Jennie Ellis, 

842. TIRA HINSDALE' (David" David^ Jonathan^ Isaac' 

Barnabas^ Robert'), daughter of David Hinsdale, Jr. 



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and Mary McCracken, his wife, born October 30, 1811, 
died February 11, 1845. She married October 9, 1832, 
James O. Bennett. They resided at Camillus, N. Y. 

Children : 

1507. i. JAMES H. 

1508. ii. DAVID A., born Feb. 23, 1837. 

1509. iii. JAMES O., bom Nov. 9, 1839; married Marietta War- 

muth. 

845. FAROZINA CLAPP ' (Sally Hmsdale« David^ Jonathan* 

Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter of John Clapp 
and Sally Hinsdale, his wife, born July 22, 1810, died 
July 3, 1863. She married at Pompey, N. Y., February 
3, 1835, James Dunning. They had three children. 

846. MELITA ELIZABETH CLAPP' (Sally Hinsdale" David' 

Jonathan* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert'), daughter of John 
Clapp and Sally Hinsdale, his wife, born September 21, 
1811, died February 6, 1860. She married at Pompey, 
N. Y., January 31, 1838, Doctor John S. Briggs, born 
November 5, 1808, died January 13, 1859. 

Cliild: 

1510. 1. SARAH ALICE, born Feb. 16, 1843; died May 11, 1859. 

847. ADDISON H. CLAPP ' (SaUy Hinsdale' David'' Jonathan* 

Isaac' Barnabas' Robert'), son of John Clapp and Sally 
Hinsdale, his wife, born April 25, 1813, died November 
13, 1880. He married, first, at Pompey, N. Y., September 
29, 1839, Juliette Cook. He married, second, June 26, 

26, 1844, Mary . By his second wife he had 

three children. 

848. EDMUND 0. CLAPP' (Sally Hmsdale" Da vid» Jonathan ' 

Isaac' Barnabas' Robert*), son of John Clapp and 
Sally Hinsdale, his wife, born April 2, 1814, died March 
20, 1875. He married at Fenner, Madison Coimty, N. Y., 
July 2, 1849, Laura Eunice Dana, born November 14, 
1828, died September 15, 1868. They had four children. 

851. THERESA CLAPP ' (Sally Hmsdale" David' Jonathan* 
Isaac' Barnabas' Robert'), daughter of John Clapp and 
Sally Hinsdale, his wife, born April 26, 1819, married at 



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Pompey, N. Y,, February 12, 1845, Chester Baker, born 
January 5, 1812. They resided at Lafayette, Onondaga 
County, N. Y. They had four children. 

853. RHOD A CLAPP ' (SaUy Hinsdale" David« Jonathan^ Isaac" 

Barnabas^ Robert^; daughter of John Clapp and Sally 
Hinsdale, his wife, born August 8, 1842, died May 4, 
1879. She married at Pompey, N. Y., December 27, 1848, 
Doctor Harvey Tollman. 

Children : 

1511. i. FLORENCE AUGUSTA, bom Aug. 24, 1852; married 

Jan. 24, 1872, William De Forest Skellenger, bom Jan. 
15, 1849. 

1512. ii. LIZZIE SARAH, bom Aug. 22, 1860. 

854. FLORA CLAPP' (Sally Hinsdale" David" Jonathan* Isaac" 

Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter of John Clapp and Sally 
Hinsdale, his wife, born December 31, 1827, married at 
Pompey, N. Y., June 26, 1851, Charles Waters Reed, 
born December 19, 1825, died July 2, 1867. 

ChUd: 

1513. i. ELLA SOPHIA, bom Mar. 16, 1854; died Feb. 18, 1877; 

married Charies P. Barto, bom Aug. 1, 1850. 

857. LUCETTA HINSDALE ' (Jonathan" David" Jonathan* Isaac" 

Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter of Jonathan Hinsdell and 
his first wife, SaUy Lotte, born at Hector, Schuyler 
County, N. Y., April 6, 1819, died October 9, 1860. 
She married at Dundee, 111., May 7, 1840, William B. 
Howard, born June 17, 1815. 

Children : 

1514. i. SARAH E., bom Apr. 19, 1844; died Oct. 19, 1860. 

1515. ii. SANDERS N., bom June 26, 1850. 

1516. iii. ELNORA F., bom Mar. 31, 1853. 

1517. iv. PHEBE A., bom Dec. 8, 1857. 

858. MARTHA HINSDALE ' (Jonathan" David" Jonathan* Isaac'' 

Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter of Jonathan Hinsdell and 
his first wife, Sally Lotte, born at Hector, Schuyler 
Coimty, N. Y., November 5, 1820, married at Dundee, 
111., September 11, 1844, Ebenezer N. Miller, born 
November 8, 1815. 



306 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Cliildren : 

1518. i. MARY FRANCES, born May 15, 1845; married Lewis B. 

Householder. 

1519. ii. JULIA M., bom Jan. 1, 1852. 

859. CHARLOTTE HINSDALE' (Jonathan" David^ Jonathan* 

Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^), daughter of Jonathan Hms- 
dell and his first wife, Sally Lotte, born at Hector, Schuyler 
County, N. Y., June 16, 1823, married at Dundee, lU., 
Alexander McMillan, born September 28, 1821. 

Children : 

1520. i. SOPHRONA, born Aug. 2, 1848; married Nathan C. Cal- 

houn. 

1521. ii. LAVINA, bom May 30, 1852. 

1522. iii. SOPHIA, bom Oct. 5, 1855. 

860. DAVID C. HINSDALE' (Jonathan^ David^ Jonathan^ 

Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert'), son of Jonathan Hinsdell and 
his first wife, Sally Lotte, born at Hector, Schuyler 
County, N. Y., August 12, 1825, married at Mitchell, 
Mitchell County, la., November 6, 1866, Sarah J. Lower, 
They lived at Osage, Mitchell County, la. He was a mem- 
ber of the First IlUnois Artillery in the Civil War. He is 
now, 1904, living in Cahfornia in a Soldiers' Home. 

Child: 

1523. i. GEORGE E.,bom June 20, 1869. 

861. EUNICE LEVYNA HINSDELL ' (Jonathan" David" Jona- 

than* Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert'), daughter of Jonathan 
Hmsdell and his second wife, Levyna Hamilton, born at 
Dundee, Kane County, 111., June 14 or 15, 1840, married 
December 30, 1862, at Dundee, Joel Haven, born No- 
vember 16, 1837. They resided at Dundee, 111. 

Children : 

1524. i. FRANK H., born May 12, 1865. 

1525. ii. NORA, bora Nov. 7, 1867. 

1526. iii. STELLA, bom May 26, 1869. 

862. ROBERT HAMILTON HINSDALE (HINSDELL)' (Jona- 

than" David" Jonathan^ Isaac' Barnabas' Robert'), 
son of Jonathan Hinsdell and his second wife, Levjma 
Hamilton, born at Dundee, Kane County, 111., May 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 307 

22, 1842, married at BrowTisdale, Moner County, Minn., 
January 28, 1866, Mary Etta Simpson, born March 
15, 1847, at Dundee, 111., daughter of James Simp- 
son of Dundee and Eliza Fox of Binghamton, N. Y., his 
wife. They live at Elgin, Kane County, 111. Robert H. 
Hinsdale was a member of Company C, 153rd Regiment, 
Illinois Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War. 

Children, born at Elgin, 111. : 

1527. i. GERTRUDE, bom Mar. 19, 1867; married June 5, 1901, 

at Elgin, Martin Kidder Fay, of Keene, N. H. 

1528. ii. ADDIE, bom Nov. 19, 1870. 

1529. iii. ALBERT, bom June 25, 1874; died June 29, 1894. 

1530. iv. BEULAH, born Jan. 24, 1879. 

1531. V. ETHEL YN MARGUERITE, bom June 10, 1885. 

865. GEORGE WILLIAM HINSDELL' (Jonathan" David^ 

Jonathan^ Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert'), son of Jonathan 
Hinsdell and his second wife, Levyna Hamilton, born 
at Dundee, Kane County, 111., April 16, 1852, married 
September 17, 1873, Ada Gilbert, born February 11, 
1851. 

Children: 

1532. i. LILLIAN, bom July 22, 1874; married Nov. 25, 1901, 

James Pexton, bom Apr. 24, 1874. 

1533. ii. RAY W., bom July 27, 1877; married Cora E. Elmore. 

866. GEORGE HINSDALE^ (Ira" David^ Jonathan^ Isaac' 

Barnabas^ Robert'), son of Ira Hinsdale and Hannah 
Stephens, his wife, born at Antwerp, N. Y., Novem- 
ber 11, 1819, died at Rensselaer Falls, N. Y., February 
21, 1859. He married at Oxbow, Jefferson County, N. Y., 
October 26, 1843, Harriet Ann Hamlin, born at Ox- 
bow, December 21, 1822, died there, August 11, 1897, 
daughter of Captain Horace Hamlin and Nancy McAllis- 
ter, his wife. He was a farmer, residing at Oxbow until 
1855, and afterwards at Rensselaer Falls, N. Y. He 
was a hotel keeper the last four years o his life. He was 
a Democrat and Know Nothing in politics ; and a Univer- 
salist. At the time of his death he had received the ap- 
pointment of postmaster. She was a teacher before mar- 
riage; and of the Spiritualist faith. After the death of 
her husband she resided at Rensselaer Falls imtil a short 



308 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

time before her death. She was much interested in the 
genealogy of her family. She was ill a year before her 
death; realized her condition and selected the subject 
for her funeral sermon, and verses to be read on that oc- 
casion. 

Children : 

1534. i. IRA CASSIUS, (Sergeant), bom Dec. 16 or 26, 1844; 

married Marion F. Seymour. 

1535. ii. FLORENCE LAVILLA, born Aug. 8, 1848; married 

Alexander B. Clark. 

1536. iii. GEORGE JAY, bom June 10, 1857; married Eliza Helen 

McCormick. 

868. NANCY HIBBARD HINSDALE' (Ira« David' Jonathan* 

Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter of Ira Hinsdale 
and Hannah Stephens, his wife, born June 20, 1823, 
married September 17, 1846, Nicoll J. Cooper. They 
lived at Oxbow, Jefferson County, N. Y. She called 
on Hon. Sanford C. Hinsdale of Denver, Col., March 19, 
1898. Her home was then at Oxbow. 

. Children : 

1537. i. CHAUNCEY HINSDALE, bom Mar. 6, 1848; died Sept. 

19, 1872. 

1538. ii. IDA ELIZABETH, born June 5, 1852; died June 26, 

1854. 

869. DAVID SCHUYLER HINSDALE' (Ira" David^ Jona- 

than* Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert'), son of Ira Hinsdale 
and Hannah Stephens, his wife, born at Antwerp, N. Y., 
April 27, 1825, died at Oxbow, N. Y., September 17, 
1872. He married at Rossie, N. Y., February 24, 1853, 
Ann Julia Bostwick, who was born at Rutland, N. Y., 
October 11, 1830, and died at Oxbow, September 6, 1872, 
daughter of Wilham Buckley Bostwick and Eliza McAllas- 
ter, his wife. He settled in the town of Lisbon, N. Y., 
where he piu-chased a farm. In 1859 he removed to Ox- 
bow, where he lived until the time of his death. He was a 
man of strict integi-ity, a great reader and public spirited. 

Children : 

1539. i. ELIZABETH, bom at Lisbon, N. Y., Apr. 16, 1854; 

died at Theresa, N. Y., Nov. 25, 1893; married at Ox- 
bow, N. Y., Oct. 16, 1879, David Gregor Wilson, bom 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 309 

at Hammond, N. Y., Dec. 10, 1854, son of Robert Wilson 
of Hammond. 

1540. ii. SARAH, bom Dec. 24, 1855; married James H. Mc- 

Kown. 

1541. iii. ELIAL WAIT, bom at Lisbon, N, Y., July, 3, 1858; 

unmarried; living at Eureka, So. Dak. 

1542. iv. NICOL COOPER, bom Apr. 9, 1868; married twice. 

870. HELEN HINSDALE' (Ira« David^ Jonathan* Isaac' 
Barnabas^ Robert'), daughter of Ira Hinsdale and Han- 
nah Stephens, his wife, born June 18, 1827, married 
at Gouvemeiu-, St. Lawrence County, N. Y. July 4, 1847, 
Moses Rich, who died at Brasher Falls, St. Lawrence 
County, N. Y., in 1882, aged 60 years. He was a fine 
scholar, a good business man and an influential political 
leader. He held responsible offices in Albany, N. Y., 
for nine winters, and served as clerk of St. Lawrence 
County, N. Y., for three years. He was a successful 
manufactiu-er of woolen cloth at Brasher Falls. Mrs. Rich 
is a poetess and lecturer, a lover of books and nature. 
At the age of thirty-five, she was an advocate of woman's 
suffrage — the first one in her county — St. Lawrence Comity, 
N. Y. She had been a writer in prose and verse many 
years prior to the war for the Union. When the war 
broke out, she delivered lectures on the war, on woman's 
suffrage and on total abstinence, for four years. In 1884, 
she published a small volume of verse, "A Dream of 
the Adirondacks, etc." which was favorably received, 
the edition being exhausted in a year. Another volume 
of poems, "Murillo's Slave and other Poems," appeared 
in 1896. Her lecture, "Madame de Stael, the Rival of 
Napoleon," has been delivered before many prominent 
societies in the large cities of the United States. Of the 
latter, the St. Louis Republic said : "This lady is possessed 
of rare culture and treated her subject in a manner which 
entranced one of the most refined and intellectual audi- 
ences ever brought together in this city." Of her first 
volume of poems, the New York Nation says: "The dia- 
lect poems of Mrs. Rich are far above the average, com- 
paring favorably with those of Bret Harte and John 
Hay." Of the same volume the Springfield Republican 
said: "It gained instant recognition from the press of 



310 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

the whole country as a worthy part of the poetry of Amer- 
ica. Indeed, a first book of verse very seldom reaches any 
such common judgment of approval, and it was justified 
by the merits of the contents." Many other high 
testimonials of the merit of her writings could be cited. 
Mrs. Rich lives in Chicago, 111. 

Children : 

1543. i. LESLIE HAROLD, born May 4, 1851; died Aug. 21, 

1852. 

1544. ii. PITT CLIFTON, bom July 7, 1853; married, July 5, 

1872, Harriet Ann Cratser; lived in North Lawrence, 
Sandusky Co., O., but now lives at Chicago, 111. 

1545. iii. MARY HANNAH CORINNE, born May 22, 1858; mar- 

ried David C. Lyon of St. Joseph, Mo., who died; they 
had three children, one son and two daughters; Mrs. 
Lyon is musical director of Christ Church, St. Joseph, 
Mo., and teacher of piano and organ music. 

871. LUCRETIA PARSONS' (Justin Parsons" Rebecca Sheldon 
Benjamin Sheldon* Mary Hinsdale^ SamueP Robert*), 
daughter of Reverend Justin Parsons and his second 
wife. Electa Frary, born at Goshen, Mass., July 26, 1789; 
died at Philadelphia, Penn., January 11, 1862. She was 
married at Pittsfield, Vt., by her father, August 30, 1814, 
to Reverend Daniel Oliver Morton, A. M., of Shore- 
ham, Vt., who was born at Winthrop, Me., December 21, 
1788, and died at Bristol, N. H., March 25, 1852, son of 
Livy Morton and his first wife, Hannah Dailey, 

Children, born at Shoreham, Vt.: 

1546. i. DANIEL OLIVER, (Honorable), born Nov. 8, 1815; 

married Elizabeth A. Tyler. 

1547. ii. LUCRETIA PARSONS, bom Jan. 20, 1817; married 

Rev. Myron W. Safford. 

1548. iii. ELECTA FRARY, bom May 28, 1820; married Jonas 

Minot. 

1549. iv. LEVI PARSONS, (Honorable), bom May 16, 1824; 

married twice. 

1550. V. MARY, born May 5, 1829; married Honorable William 

F. Grinnell. 

1551. vi. MARTHA, bora May 5, 1829; married Reverend Alanson 

Hart pence. 

873. REVEREND LEVI PARSONS ' (Justin Parsons" Rebecca 
Sheldon^ Benjamin Sheldon* Mary Hinsdale' Samuel' 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 311 

Roberto, son of Reverend Justin Parsons and his 
second wife, Electa Frary, horn at Goshen, Mass., 
July 18, 1792, died at Alexandria, Egypt, February 10, 
1822. He was graduated at Middlebury College in 1814; 
studied theology at Ajidover, and was ordained at Boston, 
September 3, 1817, Rev. Lyman Beecher preaching the 
sermon. In November, 1819, he sailed as a missionary 
of the American Board for Palestine, where he labored 
until seized with the distressing malady which resulted 
in his death. In 1819, he published a sermon on "The 
Dereliction and Restoration of the Jews, preached in the 
Pearl Street Church, Boston, October 31," of the eame 
year. The "Life and Letters of Rev. Levi Parsons" was 
published by Rev. Daniel O. Morton in 1824, 2nd edition 
1830, 1 volume, 408 pages. The poet Brainard also 
wrote a tribute to his memory. 

878. GEORGE CLARK HINSDALE ' (SamueP SamueP SamueP 
Mehuman'SamueP Roberto, son of Samuel Hinsdale, 3rd, 
and Sally Clark, his wife, born at Greenfield. Mass., 
December 29, 1807, died May 18, 1889. He married near 
Princeton, 111., May 18, 1834, Elizabeth Baggs, born at 
Urbana, 0., April 10, 1816, daughter of John Baggs. 
She was living in 1897. 

Children : 

1552. i. EMILY, born Mar. 21, 1835; married Eli Brooks. 

1553. ii. SAMUEL DEXTER, bom July 3, 1837; married Helen 

J. Pierce. 

1554. iii. NATHAN BRIDGE, (Sergeant), born in Bureau Co., 

111., Mar. 8, 1840; died Dec. 5, 1862; was Orderly Ser- 
geant of Co . D . , 7th Kansas Cavalry ; was killed in battle 
near Coffeeville, Miss.; unmarried. 

1555. iv. MARY ELIZABETH, bom Nov. 15, 1842; married 

Nicolas Wells Baker. 

1556. V. DAVID, bom Feb. 28, 1846; died when six weeks old. 

1557. vi. SARAH REBECCA, born July 9, 1848; married John 

W. Coddington. 

1558. vii. JULIA SOPHIA, bom Jan. 27, 1852; married George 

W. McPherson. 

1559. viii. ANN ELIZA, bom in Bureau Co., 111., Oct. 7, 1854; 

unmarried. 

1560. ix. IDA M., bom in Bureau Co., lU., Jan. 9, 1858; unmar- 

ried; she and her sister, Ann Eliza, were living in 1897 
with their mother at Wyanet, Bureau Co., 111. 



312 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

880. MARY STEBBINS HINSDALE^ (Samueio SamueP 
Samuel* Mehuman' SamueP Robert'), daughter of 
Samuel Hinsdale, 3rd, and Sally Clark, his wife, born at 
Greenfield, Mass., August 14, 1812, died July 4, 1893, at 
Walnut Bend, Pa. She married, April 16, 1833, E. H. 
Ross of Deerfield, Mass., who died April 1, 1841. 

Children : 

1561. i. GIDEON H., born Sept. 5, 1834; died 187—; unmarried. 

1562. ii. ALBERTCbomApr. 3, 1837; soldier in the war of the 

Rebellion in Company B., 85th Regiment, N. Y. Infan- 
try Volunteers; was ten months a prisoner at Ander- 
sonville; died Apr. 21, 1865, from effects of prison life, 
soon after being exchanged; unmarried. 

882. SAMUEL DEXTER HINSDALE' (Samuel" SamueP 
SamueP Mehiunan^ SamueP Robert*), son of Samuel 
Hinsdale, 3rd, and Sally Clark, his wife, born at Greenfield, 
Mass., June 4, 1816, died December 20, 1875. He married, 
first, February 10, 1842, Jemima Carpenter, of Prince- 
ton, 111., born May 31, 1822, died July 4, 1855. He mar- 
ried, second November 15, 1857, Mrs. Susan M. Wood, 
of Castile, N. Y. Jemima Carpenter was formerly of 
Gouverneur, N, Y. 

Children, born at Princeton. 111.: 

By his first wife, Jemima Carpenter. 

1563. i. SAMUEL BURRITT, born Mar. 27, 1847; married Julia 

E. Nash. 

1564. ii. CLARK B., bom Apr. 9, 1849; died May 12, 1849. 

1565. iii. CHARLOTTE GRACE, bom Sept. 9, 1850; married W. I. 

Bates. 

1566. iv. GEORGE W., bom Jan. 27, 1853; died Feb. 15, 1857. 

1567. V. FANNY ISABELLE, born May 5, 1855; died Aug. 30, 

1855. 

By his second wife, Susan . 

1568. vi. LYMAN K., bom Jan. 23, 1859; married Minnie M. 

Lytton. 

1569. vii. GEORGE N., bom May 3, 1865; married Dec. 5, 18S9, 

Eva J. HUdreth of Lowell, Mass.; no children. 

902. EBENEZER HINSDALE ' (Darius' Ariel' Samuel* Mehu- 
man' SamueP Robert^, son of Darius Hinsdale and Electa 
Graves, his wife, born at Greenfield, Mass., September 
19, 1817, married December 5, 1839, Harriet Jemima 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 313 

Newcomb of Leyden, born at Bernardston, Mass., 
August 7, 1818. They lived in Greenfield and Colerain, 
Mass., then removed in 1850 to Squaw Grove, De Kalb 
County, 111., where they remained. He was a farmer. 

Children : 

1570. i. MARY E., bom Nov. 21, 1840; married Nov. 5, 1862, 

0. C. Ainsworth, a carpenter. 

1571. ii. WILLIAM NEWCOMB, bom Oct. 21, 1842; married, 

Jan. 3, 1868, Minnie Norris; served nearly three years 
in the Civil War; was a grocer and resided at Quincy, 
111. 

1572. iii. HATTIE E., bom Nov. 29, 1845; died Oct, 10, 1862. 

913. WHITING D. HINSDALE « (Elisha' Elisha « Jacob ^ Jacob * 
Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert'), son of Elisha Hinsdale 
and Ophelia Whiting, his wife, born at Harwinton, Conn., 
December 12, 1814, died in Kansas, November, 1880. 
He married Abigail Ann Bennett. 

Children : 

1573. i. LOREN, bom in Ohio; was drowned in Ohio at the age 

of four years. 

1574. ii. ROSAMOND, bom in Ohio and died there at the age of 

two years. 

1575. iii. HORACE W., bom in Ohio, Mar. 27, 1848; died m Mich- 

igan, Nov., 1886. 

1576. iv. ROLLIN B., born in Michigan, Sept. 8, 1851; died at 

Fairfield, Mich., Sept. 24, 1900. 

1577. v, MARY O., bom in Michigan, September, 1856; married 

in 1878; died in Chicago in 1880; left no children. 

1578. vi. DELIA F., bom in Michigan, Mar. 16, 1866; still livmg 

at Detroit, Mich. 

916. ELISHA J. HINSDALE « (Elisha' Elisha" Jacob = Jacob ^ 
Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert'), son of Elisha Hinsdale 
and Opheha Whitmg, his wife, born July 5, 1827; died 
March 19, 1855. He married Elizabeth Dolph, who is 
still living with her son Augustus at the old homestead 
near Adrian, Mich. 

Children : 

1579. i. ALICE A., born Aug. 9, 1851; married Thomas Randolph. 

1580. ii. AUGUSTUS E., bom May 10, 1854; married Sarah A. 

Stewart. 



314 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

919. PROFESSOR BURKE AARON HINSDALE, A. M., 
Ph. D., LL. D./ (Albert' Elisha" Jacob^ Jacob^ Barnabas' 
Barnabas^ Robert'), son of Albert Hinsdale and Clarinda 
Elvira Eyles, his wife, was born at Wadsworth, Medina 
County, 0., March 31, 1837, and died at Atlanta, Ga., 
November 29, 1900. He married. May 24, 1862, Mary 
E. Turner of Cleveland, O. 

From the National Cyclopedia of American Biography: 
James T. White & Company, Vol. X., p. 4'^1: 

"Biirke Aaron Hinsdale, educator, was born at Wads- 
worth, Medina Coimty, O., March 31, 1837, son of Albert 
and Clarinda E. (Eyles) Hinsdale. He was brought up 
on his father's farm, and educated at a district school 
until the age of sixteen, when he entered the Western 
Reserve Eclectic Institute at Hiram, 0., now Hiram Col- 
lege, and became a favorite pupil of President Garfield, 
one time prmcipal of the Institute. He taught for a time 
in the common schools and then returned to the Hiram 
Institute to study. He was an assistant teacher here for a 
time, and he taught in various schools in Ohio mitil 1869, 
when he returned to Hiram as a professor, and in 1870 be- 
came president of the college. He remained there imtil 1882, 
when he was elected supermtendent of the public schools 
of Cleveland, O. In 1888 he became professor in the Uni- 
versity of Michigan, where he still remains. While at 
Hiram he carried on a religious ministry, and for several 
years served as pastor, first at Solon, O., and afterwards 
at Cleveland. He began in early life to contribute to 
journalistic literatiu-e, and has served as subordinate edi- 
tor of 'The Christian Standard,' 'The Christian Quar- 
terly,' 'The Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quar- 
terly,' 'The Teacher' and 'Intelligence,' besides con- 
tributing a large number of articles to other journals. 
He is the author of 'The Genuineness and Authenticity 
of the Gospels' (1871); 'The Jewish-Christian Church' 
(1878); 'Ecclesiastical Tradition' (1879); 'The Repub- 
lican Text-Book for 1880,' which was mainly a political 
life of General Garfield; 'President Garfield and Educa- 
tion' (1881); 'How to Study and Teach History' (1883); 
'Schools and Studies' (1884); 'The Old Northwest' 




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(1888); 'The American Government' (1892); 'Jesus as a 
Teacher' (1895); 'Teaching the Language Arts' and 
'Studies in Education' (1896); 'The Art of Study' 
(1900). He also edited 'The Works of James Abram 
Garfield/ in two volumes (Boston, 1882-83), with intro- 
ductions and notes. He received the degree of A. M. 
from Williams and Bethany Colleges, Ph. D. from Ohio 
State University, and LL, D. from Ohio University. He 
is a member of the National Educational Association ; the 
National Coimcil of Education, of which he was president 
in 1897; the American Historical Association; Michigan 
State Teachers' Association (president 1900); the School- 
masters' Club; and is an honorary member of the Histor- 
ical Society of Virginia. He was married in 1862, to 
Mary E. Turner, of Cleveland, O., and has three daugh- 
ters." 

From The ''Old Northwest" Genealogical Quarterly. 
Volume IV., No. 4, October, 1901: 

BURKE AARON HINSDALE. 

By Prof. Samuel Carroll Derby, A. M., 

Professor of Latin, Ohio State University; Historian of 

The "Old Northwest" Genealogical Society. 

"The family to which Dr. Hinsdale belonged and gave 
distinction, has been traced, in America, to Robert Hins- 
dale, a Puritan yoeman, who was, as is believed, the emi- 
grant ancestor of all the American Hinsdales. Robert 
Hinsdale is known to have been one of the founders of the 
church in Dedham, Mass., November 8, 1638; was made 
a freeman of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, March 
13, 1639, and became a member of the ArtiUery Company, 
1645. 

"His wife, Ann, was almost certainly the person to whom 
Adams (Three Episodes in Massachusetts History; p. 
753) refers, when, describing the Puritan method of ad- 
mission to church membership, by public profession of 
faith and confession of sin before the congregation, an 
ordeal trying to the timid and now fortunately obsolete, 
he quotes from the chiu-ch records as follows: 

" 'The wife of our brother Hinsdell being fearful and not 
able to speak in publike, but fainting away ther, coming 



316 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

to church in private gave good satisfaction; which being 
publickly testified and declared, and she confirming the 
same relation to be so, was received.' 

"Robert Hinsdale removed from Dedham to Medfield, 
Mass., and thence to Hadley, Mass., where he spent sev- 
eral years and married as his second wife, Elizabeth, 
widow of John Hawks. As early as 1671, he had gone 
further up the valley of the Connecticut and settled at the 
frontier towTi of Deerfield, in what is now known as the 
'Yale' house. Of his sons, Barnabas and Samuel lived 
on the 'Billings place.' Robert Hinsdale and his three 
oldest sons, Barnabas, John and Samuel, were slain in 
King Philip's War. One account states that they were 
killed by the Indians, September 18, 1675, while at work 
in their cornfield on Deerfield Meadows. A different ren- 
dering is given by Bodge, in his book entitled 'Soldiers 
in King Philip's War' (1896), who concludes that the 
Hinsdales and several of their neighbors were with the 
company of Capt. Lothrop, as teamsters and harvesters 
when, after a night march the party was siuprised by the 
Indians lying in ambush at Muddy Brook (thence-forward 
'Bloody Brook') crossing. The Hinsdales shared the 
fate of the 'Flower of Essex,' on that 'black and fatal 
day,' and were buried in the same grave with them. A 
younger son. Experience, was the guide of Capt. William 
Turner the following May (18th), in the 'Falls Fight.' 
Ephraim Hinsdale, also, is mentioned in connection with 
the hostilities in the Connecticut Valley. No family, per- 
haps, suffered more in that desperate struggle with the 
Indians than the Hinsdales, but the pioneer tendency of 
the family was not permanently checked by the violent 
death of four of its members. 

"Barnabas Hinsdale, son of that Barnabas who had fallen 
in the massacre at Bloody Brook, and of his wife, Sarah 
Taylor White, went southward and settled at Hartford, 
Conn., and married there, Martha Smith. Nme children 
were born to them; the third of these, Jacob, was one of 
first settlers of Harwinton, in western Connecticut, upon 
lands inherited from his father. 

"Jacob Hinsdale, who married Hannah Seymour, was a 
useful and prominent man in his community, served in 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 317 

the French War, received a captain's commission, and 
was elected to various offices by his townsmen. He, too, 
had nine children. The eldest, Jacob, married Mary- 
Brace and settled first in Harwinton, but removed about 
1771 to Canaan, Conn,, where he died about the beginning 
of the War of 1812, One of the earliest recollections of 
Albert Hinsdale was that of going to his grandfather's 
fimeral 'in Priest Gillett's hack; 'Priest Gillett' was the 
clergyman of the town, 

"The second son of Jacob and Mary (Brace) Hinsdale, 
Elisha, was born in Harwinton, Conn., February 28, 1761, 
and died in Norton, Ohio, June 22, 1827, At Canaan, a 
lad of sixteen, he enlisted in the Continental army and 
spent three years, including the terrible winter at Valley 
Forge, in the service of his country. Compelled by broken 
health to leave the army, he turned to mechanical and 
manufacturmg pursuits, and in 1816 removed to Ohio, 
The journey was no slight undertakmg; four stout oxen 
drew his household goods and eight weeks were spent 
upon the road to 'New Connecticut.' The qualities 
which had caused Elisha Hinsdale to be esteemed in New 
England soon gained recognition in Ohio, where he served 
as a justice of the peace as long as his health permitted. 
Soon after his arrival at Norton, O., he built a house 
which was described as the best in town, 'for the logs 
were butted off and were hewn on the inside.' His son 
remembered that before the next winter came, 'the house 
was chmked and daubed; we had a good puncheon floor 
overhead, a stick chimney from the floor up, planed doors 
and glass windows (the glass brought from Connecti- 
cut).' Their Ust of native fruits was short: 'Mandrakes, 
pumpkins, and crab apples.' 

"The first wife of EUsha Hinsdale was Asenath Barnes, 
who left him five httle boys. He had three children by 
his second wife, Ehzabeth, daughter of Joseph Holcomb 
of Granby, Conn., of whom Albert was the second, from 
whom we have quoted, who is described as a man of 
marked individuahty, excellent judgment and keen in- 
sight into the character and motives of men. His circum- 
stances were such as to restrict his school education to the 
rudiments, 'For a man of such a Ufe, he had more than 



318 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

an ordinary taste for literature. Nature gave him the 
power of literary creation, but nurture withheld the oppor- 
tunity; still the local newspaper often bore witness of his 
quaintness of thought, his closeness of observation, and his 
pictorial description.' His mental attitude is illustrated 
by his own words, written near the end of his life: 'Im- 
provements will stiU go on Although there are bad men 
in the world and many things not as they should be, still 
the world is evidently growing better.' The wife of Albert 
Hinsdale was Clarinda Elvira, daughter of Judge William 
and Polly (Derthick) Eyles, born in Akron, O., July 12, 
1815, but of Connecticut stock. Respecting her, I bor- 
row the words of her son, the subject of this sketch: 

" ' The basis of her mental character was strength. Some 
of her intellectual and moral qualities were of the highest 
order. Her opportunities for schooling were those of her 
time and place — very smaU as measured by the standard 
of to-day — and she never had the mental resources that 
training and literature confer. Her kingdom was her 
home; here she ruled with qualities that were truly regal. 
In neatness, despatch, and thoroughness, her housekeep- 
ing went beyond perfection. Her fertihty of resource, 
her ability to plan or (as she would say) "contrive"; her 
ambition, her strength of will, her resoluteness of purpose, 
her chivalrous courage and immortal hope, her lofty 
spirit, and her unfaltering devotion to duty, the wTiter 
has never seen surpassed on any field of action.' 

"The ancestry of Dr. Hinsdale has now been traced from 
the first arrival of the family in America to the settlement 
of one of its branches in Ohio. 

"Evidence is not lacking that other lines were equally 
fruitfiil in men of substantial worth. At least two New 
England towns owe their names to collateral members of 
this family. Hinsdale, New Hampshire, commemorates 
the efficient service of Col. Ebenezer Hinsdale (Harvard, 
1727), of Deerfield, who, trained and ordained to the min- 
istry, was certainly a member of the church militant and 
fought valiantly to protect the border settlements of 
Massachusetts on the upper Connecticut. Hinsdale, Mas- 
sachusetts, keeps alive the memory of Rev. Theodore 
Hinsdale (Yale, 1762), son of John Hinsdale of Berlin, 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 319 

Conn., who, after serving 28 years as pastor at Windsor 
in that state, spent his old age in western Massachusetts, 
and died there, his good service ended, December 28, 1818. 

"From similar ancestry and like conditions many Ameri- 
cans of unusual merit have sprung. Some generations of 
simple, strenuous, outdoor living are, apparently, an 
almost invariable antecedent of persons of unusual ability 
and marked character. American civilization has thus 
far found no satisfactory substitute for such forbears and 
such external circumstances. No other conditions have 
given equal vigor and endurance, or been so prolific in 
men of sterling worth. 

" Burke Aaron Hinsdale, son of Albert and Clarinda 
Elvira (Eyles) Hinsdale, was born at Wadsworth, Medina 
County, 0., March 31, 1837, and died at Atlanta, Ga., 
November 29, 1900. He was the second of five children, 
and the eldest son. He grew up amid the toil and strug- 
gles of a pioneer household, but located amid ever im- 
proving conditions and a widening outlook. Mr. Hins- 
dale's early education was gained in the district school. 
He was a bright and studious boy who early had the 
courage to protect smaller boys from the bullying pro- 
pensities of their larger fellows. In a debating society 
connected with the district school of the neighborhood, 
he took a prominent part and won local renown for cogent 
arguments. Two or three of his early teachers are still 
alive: Mr. Cyrus King, of Medina, O., Mr. Lafayette 
Waffle, and Mrs. M. (Weeks) Henry of Akron, who 'taught 
him his letters' in the old-time way. 

"At the age of sixteen (in 1853) he was sent to the newly- 
established Western Reserve Eclectic Institute, which by 
a natural growth became, in 1867, Hiram College. One 
of his latest papers was an historical address which he 
wrote for the semi-centennial of the Institute — an ad- 
dress that, coming from the writer's heart, and specially 
intended for the foimders and friends of Hiram College, 
has interest and value for more than those who have per- 
sonal relations with the Institute and its successor. The 
paper is a luminous and suggestive account of an import- 
ant phase of the educational movement in Ohio, fifty 
years ago. At the Institute, to which Mr. Hinsdale went 



320 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

in November, 1S53, 'the social environment was bald 
and realistic to a degree almost to defy idealization.' Of 
the instructors, Mr. Hinsdale says, that they had educa- 
tion adequate to their work, that they w'ere skillful teach- 
ers and that they devoted themselves, heart and soul, to 
their students. Of one of these instructors (Almeda 
Booth) he wTote that he considered her 'the most master- 
ful woman teacher' he had ever knowii. At the Insti- 
tute Mr. Hmsdale met Mr. Garfield, who was a few 3^ears 
his senior; these gifted 3^0 ung men soon formed a life- 
long friendship. In 1857 Mr. Garfield became the head 
of the Institute and under his leadership there came a 
new era at Hiram; 'more attention was now given to 
education as education, and less attention to making 
preachers.' Some friction and heat attended the change. 

"Mr. Hinsdale was a hard student who read eagerly m 
a wide range of subjects. A singularly retentive memory 
aided him in gaining a vast store of acciu^ate information. 
His first teaching was done in a district school in the towoi- 
ship of Franklin, Summit County, in the autumn of 1855 
and following winter; and the three succeedmg wmters at 
other places in that part of Ohio. He taught district 
schools winters only; the remainder of the year was spent 
in study at Hiram, or in work upon the home farm. In 
1860 Mr. Hinsdale began to teach at Hiram as a pupil 
assistant, and thus defra^^ed a part of his expenses. It 
is to be hoped that they w^ere proportionate to his com- 
pensation. 'I remember distinctly,' he wTites, 'that when 
I began to teach Algebra here in 1860 the syndicate paid 
me S16.00 a term, for one class, or about a dollar a week.' 

"Two years later he married, and with the aid of his 
wife, taught for one year a 'select school,' at Sharon, 
Medina County, and the next year, aided by his sister, 
Louise, a similar school at Solon, Cuyahoga County. He 
preached, also, for a time at Solon, and afterwards at 
Cleveland, where he assisted in edithig 'The Cliristian 
Standard,' but after he entered upon college work, in 
1868, he preached less frequently; he felt that his proper 
vocation was that of teacher and author, though during 
his presidency at Hiram, his pulpit discourses were highly 
acceptable to thoughtful hearers. 



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"In 1870 Mr. Hinsdale was chosen President of Hiram 
College. Though only thirty-three years old, the new 
President was without question the natural successor of 
General Garfield. For twelve years Mr. Hinsdale held this 
arduous and honorable position, and in it toiled terribly. 
He was at once professor, lecturer, preacher, author, ad- 
ministrator, and financier. Three works of a theological 
cast were pubhshed by him during the years he was at 
Hiram: ' The Genuineness and Authenticity of the Gospels,' 
1872; ' The Jewish-Christian Church,' 1878; and 'Ecclesias- 
tical Tradition,' 1879. Some other papers written during 
these years appeared in 'Schools and Studies,' 1884. 

"Mr. Hinsdale natm-ally was deeply interested in the 
nomination of his close friend. General Garfield, for the 
presidency, and at the request of the Republican National 
Committee, prepared a 'Campaign Text-book,' and made 
several speeches in Ohio and Indiana. After the death 
of General Garfield, Mr. Hmsdale published a book with 
a biographical introduction, entitled, 'President Garfield 
and Education,' 1882, and the following year collected 
and edited General Garfield's works in two volumes. 

"In the spring of 1882 Mr. Hinsdale, more to his own 
siu-prise than to that of those who were aware of his rap- 
idly growing reputation, was tendered the superintend- 
ency of the Cleveland public schools. After some hesita- 
tion he accepted this unexpected call, entered upon that 
larger field in the autumn of 1882, and held the position 
for four years. Mr. Hinsdale began this new work with a 
characteristic vigor and made a careful study of the con- 
dition and needs of the schools under his charge. Many 
of his suggestions are contamed in his annual reports, 
which did not foUow the stereot3^ed lines of most school 
reports. They appealed strongly to thoughtful educa- 
tors. For the more immediate aid of the teachers a pam- 
phlet, the 'Cleveland School Bulletin,' was issued monthly. 
It seems clear that Mr. Hinsdale modified the school sys- 
tem of Cleveland in a wholesome fashion, though at first 
he may have been less familiar with details of adminis- 
tration than men of different experience. The fact that 
four years after Mr. Hinsdale left Cleveland, overtures 
were made looking towards his return thither is good 



322 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

evidence that his ser\dces in that city were not unappre- 
ciated by those who directed its school system. 

"A high authority in education says: 'His writings 
from the beginnmg were very valuable as exciting a pro- 
founder habit of thinking with regard to educational theory 
and practice in the common schools.' In later years Mr. 
Hinsdale wTote less upon educational theory, more upon 
the history of education m this country, a field in which 
his contributions are of permanent value and the latest 
are the best. In this field Mr. Hinsdale had no superior 
and hardly a second. 

"At the end of his service in Cleveland Mr. Hinsdale's 
reputation was such that in 1887 he was elected professor 
of the Science and the Art of Teaching in the University 
of Michigan. He began his duties February, 1888, and 
held that position the remainder of his life. In the interval 
between his superintendency at Cleveland and his going 
to Ann Arbor, Mr. Hinsdale wrote 'The Old North West,' 
perhaps his most important and widely known work; a 
revised edition of it appeared in 1899. 

"Dr. Hinsdale's interest in history was influential in 
shaping his instruction in education ; he dwelt by prefer- 
ence upon the history of educational development rather 
than on present educational theories, though the latter 
were not neglected in his lectures. 

"Dr. Hinsdale found at Ann Arbor his true place, and 
his life there was happy and fruitful beyond any previous 
measure. There is the best evidence that while at the 
University of Michigan he was counted peculiarly sane 
and free from 'fads' in his teaching, a valuable and faith- 
ful college officer, a strong debater who persuaded by 
force of argument rather than by the graces of oratory, a 
man of untiring industry sustained by a robust constitu- 
tion, which enabled him to produce numerous volumes 
on various subjects, not to mention frequent contribu- 
tions to periodicals, reports made to various associations, 
and public addresses on many themes. 

"Pressed by all these burdens. Dr. Hinsdale took a full 
share of the multifarious duties which devolve upon the 
members of an active college faculty. There is no doubt 
that he overtaxed his unusual strength and shortened 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 323 

his life by excessive toil. How prolific his labors as an 
author were, is seen by the list of his books published 
after he went to Ann Arbor: 

" ' The American Government' (1891), 'How to Study 
and Teach History' (1893), 'Jesus as a Teacher' (1895), 
'Teaching the Language Arts' (1896), 'Studies in Edu- 
cation' (1896), 'Civil Government of Ohio' (1896), 'Life 
of Horace Mann' (1898), 'The Art of Study' (1901), 
which Superintendent Maxwell styles 'Professor Hins- 
dale's most important contribution to educational 
theory.' 

" Premature death prevented Dr. Hinsdale from com- 
pleting two historical works in which he was deeply in- 
terested and which he believed would be quite as worthy 
of the attention of intelligent readers as any of his pre- 
vious books; one would probably have borne the name, 
'Title Deeds to the United States.' This was essentially 
a history of the territorial growth of the United States. 
Dr. Hinsdale, as early as 1886-87, had prepared a course 
of lectures which would serve as a basis to such a work; 
these were s'x in number with the titles: 1. The Discovery 
of America, and its division among the maritime nations 
of Western Europe; 2. The English and French in North 
America; 3. Independent America; 4. The Acquisition of 
Louisiana and Florida; 5. From Texas to Alaska; 6. 
The Northwest Territory, and the Western Reserve. It 
is to be hoped that his daughter, who of late years has 
been associated with her father in some of his historical 
works, may feel justified in completing and publishing this 
one. The other work in contemplation was a history of 
education in this country, a task which no other American 
was better qualified by training and natural gifts to under- 
take. Dr. Hinsdale had in hand, also, material for a his- 
tory of education in Ohio. 

"Fortunately, his 'History of the University of Michi- 
gan' was in a more complete state and will soon be witness 
to his careful research. 

"Dr. Hinsdale's merit gained academic recognition 
and he was given the degree of A. M. by Bethany and 
Williams Colleges, that of Ph. D. by the Ohio State Univer- 
sity (1887), and the degree of LL. D. by Ohio University. 



324 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

"He held membership in the Michigan State Teachers' 
Association and Schoolmasters' Club, and in the National 
Educational Association, of whose Council he was Presi- 
dent in 1897, and was one of the Committee of Twelve on 
Riu-al Schools. In addition to these professional rela- 
tions, Dr. Hinsdale was a member of the Historical and 
Archaeological Society of Ohio, an early and interested 
member of the 'Old Northwest' Genealogical Society, a 
part of whose name was borrowed from Dr. Hinsdale's 
best knowni work, an honorary member of the Historical 
Society of Virginia, and a member of the American His- 
torical Association, and was connected with other educa- 
tional and religious societies. 

"A bibliography of his numerous books and contributions 
to periodicals and reports to various associations is given 
in 'The Educational Review' (February), 1901, pp. 197- 
199. Partial lists of his historical papers and pamphlets 
may be found in the annual reports of the American His- 
torical Association, especially in that of 1889, pp. 277-279, 
Careful sketches of Dr. Hinsdale, prepared by competent 
hands, are, also, to be found in the 'Educational Review/ 
for February and March, 1901. These naturally are 
largely concerned with his work in education. 

"Dr. Hinsdale married. May 24, 1862, Mary Eliza Turner, 
whose family stock was in many respects similar to his 
ovm; the}'- had been students together at the Eclectic 
Institute. Dr. Hinsdale is survived by his wife and three 
daughters; Ellen Clarinda and Mary Louisa took the A. B. 
degree in 1885 at Adelbert College of "Western Reserve 
University (then coeducational). Both later received 
Masters' degrees from the University of Michigan, and 
Ellen, after passing the years 1893-96 at the Universities 
of Leipsic and Gottingen, received from the latter the 
degree of Ph. D. Miss Hinsdale is said to have been the 
first woman to receive that degree from Gottingen in the 
department of Philology. Since 1897 she has been pro- 
fessor of German at Mt. Holyoke College. Miss j\Iary L. 
Hinsdale has been joint author with her father, of the 
Ohio and Pennsylvania volumes of the State Government 
Series of school books, and has shared Dr. Hinsdale's 
historical studies. Mildred Hinsdale was graduated from 



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Michigan University, in 1895 and is a teacher in the Cen- 
tral High School, Detroit, Mich. 

"During Dr. Hinsdale's visit to Europe, 1891-92, he 
made a careful study of the school systems of various 
European States, and the first accoimt of Italian schools 
under the new kingdom, published in the United States, 
was prepared by him. 

"Dr. Hinsdale's early death seems to have been due to 
overwork. He returned from the meeting of the Na- 
tional Educational Association held at Charleston, S. C, 
ill with tonsilitis; this was followed, after exceptionally 
hard work during the hot summer, by great loss of 
strength and a return of the throat trouble; a journey 
to the South, taken a few days before his death, probably 
only hastened the end. There was no active malady, 
his mind retained its vigor until the last, and his plans 
for work were imabated. 

"In education. Dr. Hinsdale was an early and prominent 
advocate of more opportmiity for the individualism of the 
student; the schools, he said, 'handle classes better than 
they teach pupils.' He was one of the first to discuss 
the correlation of related subjects ; he saw with exceptional 
clearness the necessity of making the civilizmg and re- 
fining studies stronger in the elementary schools, by sup- 
plementary reading and other means. 

"Dr. Hinsdale was, also, quick to see and urge the neces- 
sity for special school laws for our city systems, whose 
failings none saw more clearly or discussed more sanely 
and wisely. In all that he said and wrote a massive com- 
mon sense was as conspicuous as his learning and intense 
earnestness. 

"Physically Dr. Hinsdale was noteworthy for a sturdy 
frame and the appearance of strength and endurance. 
He was not a person with whom one would take liberties; 
strangers often thought him somewhat blunt and cold in 
manner, not understanding the absolute honesty and 
frankness of his character which those who knew him well 
valued at their true worth. 

"In Dr. Hinsdale inherited qualities and tendencies found 
ample expression ; his tireless industry, his almost brusque 
frankness; love of books, fertility as a writer, inclination 



326 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

to radical thinking and conservative utterance, small pa- 
tience with cant, 'fads' and fools, candid study, rugged 
character, deep religious nature — all are more or less dis- 
tinctly outlined m his ancestry. In him nature and cir- 
cumstances were happily miited to produce the accom- 
plished scholar and the strong man. We may safely 
adopt President Angell's well-considered words: 

'"He was generous in his judgments of others, but inde- 
pendent and fearless in forming and expressing his opin- 
ions of measures, whether educational, political, or relig- 
ious. There was a noble manliness in him, an upright 
and do-wiiright integrity of make, an inspiring devotion 
to whatever is uplifting for men, which commanded uni- 
versal respect and esteem, and which will make his memory 
ever dear to all of us who had the good fortune to know 
him.' " 

List of books published by Mr. Hinsdale: 
The Genuineness and Authenticity of the Gospels (1872). 
The Jewish-Christian Church (1878). 
Ecclesiastical Tradition (1879). 
Republican Text-book for the Campaign of 1880. 
President Garfield and Education (1882). 
The Works of James Abram Garfield (1883). 
Schools and Studies (1884). 

The Old Northwest (1888); revised edition (1899). 
The American Government, National and State (1891). 
How to Study and Teach History (1893). 
Jesus as a Teacher (1895). 
Teaching the Language Arts (1896). 
Studies in Education (1896). 
Horace Mann and the Common School Revival in the 

United States (1898). 
The Art of Study (1900). 

Conjointly with Mary L. Hmsdale : 
History and Civil Government of Ohio (1896). 
History and Civil Government of Pennsylvania. 

Children : 

1581. i. ELLEN CLARINDA, M. A.. Ph. D., bom at Hiram, O., 
May 10, 1864; unmarried; professor of Gennau at Moimt 
Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. 



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1582. ii. MARY LOUISE, M. A., bom at Solon, 0., Feb. 24, 1866; 

unmarried; lives at Ann Arbor, Mich. 

1583. iii. MILDRED, bom at Hiram, O., Mar. 19, 1871; unmar- 

ried; teacher of history in the Central High School, 
Detroit, Mich.; resides at 661 Second Avenue, Detroit. 

920. ROLDON 0. HINSDALE « (Albert' Elisha" Jacob* Ja- 
cob* Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Albert Hins- 
dale and Clarinda Elvira Eyles, his wife, born at Wads- 
worth, 0., March 27, 1840, married, first, March, 1863, 
Sophia Huggins. He married, second, June 15, 1869, 
Marie Chamberlain of Solon, O. He had four children, 
one by his first wife and three by his second. He lived 
at Columbus, O., but was living at Wadsworth, 0., in 1896. 

922. WILBERT B. HINSDALE « (Albert' Elisha" Jacob* Ja- 

cob* Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert'), son of Albert Hins- 
dale and Clarinda Elvira Eyles, his wife, born at 
Wadsworth, O., May 23 or 25, 1851, married, November 
25, 1875, Theodosia Estelle Stone of Hiram, 0. They 
have one child. He is a graduate of Hiram College. In 
1878 he was teaching at West Richland, O. 

923. MARY LOUISA HINSDALE « (Oilman' Abel« Jacob* Ja- 

cob* Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert'), daughter of Dea- 
con Oilman Hinsdale and his first wife, Amanda Ward, 
born January 30, 1830, married April 11, 1849, Isaac 
N. Wells. 

Children : 

1584. i. ELLA LOUISA, bom Apr. 15, 1852. 

1585. ii. HERBERT SMITH, bom June 3, 1856. 

934. GEORGE ARTHUR HINSDALE " (Morris' Elizur« Jacob* 
Jacob* Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert'), son of Morris Hins- 
dale and Martha Wade, his wife, was born May 22, 1836. 
He married December 11, 1861, Ellen Cady. 

Children : 

1586. i. MARTHA E., bom Nov. 24, 1865. 

1587. ii. JESSE D., born Sept. 5, 1867. 

1588. iii. JENNIE A., bom Sept. 5, 1867. 

945. DANIEL C. HINSDALE » (Charles Chauncey' Erastus" 
Ezra* Jacob* Barnabas' Barnabas^ Robert*), son of Charles 



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Chauncey Hinsdale and his first wife, Catherine H. 
Ruger, born at Bennington, Vt., March 10, 1846, mar- 
ried at Cleveland, 0., September 29, 1870, Jennie Holmes. 

Children : 

1589. i. FR.\NK DAN, bom May 21, 1872; married at Spring- 

field, Ore., Apr. 18, 1900, Abigail Bowerman; no chil- 
dren. 

1590. ii. AJVIOS CHARLES, bom Nov. 5, 1874; married Florence 

Chase Morrow. 

1591. iii. ADA CATHERINE, bom Jan. 17, 1878; died Apr. 18, 

1879. 

1592. iv. AVA JOSEPHINE, bom Dec. 25, 1881. 

1593. V. JENNIE HOLMES, bom Mar. 20, 1885. 

946. CHARLES WEEKS HINSDALE « (Charles Chauncey' Eras- 

tus* Ezra^ Jacob* Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert^, son of 
Charles Chauncey Hinsdale and his second wife, Maria 
E. Weeks, born at Bennington, Vt., February 4, 1849, 
married first, at Seymour, Ind., September 27, 1876, 
Harriet Isabel Mills, who died Jime 11, 1891. He 
married, second, at Louisville, Ky., April 8, 1896, Sue 
Frances Sullivan, daughter of Doctor T. M. and Eliza M. 
Sullivan, 

Children, born at Seymour, Ind.: 

By his first wife, Harriet Isabel Mills. 

1594. i. KATHRYN, bom Feb. 17, 1879. 

1595. ii. CLARENCE, bom Aug. 16, 1882. 

947. GEORGE DEWEY HINSDALE « (Charles Chauncey' 

Erastus' Ezra^ Jacob* Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert*), 
son of Charles Chauncey Hinsdale and his second wife, 
Maria E. Weeks, born at Bennington, Vt., December 8, 
1850, married at Cleveland, O., September 6, 1877, Jen- 
nie E. Johnson of Boston, Mass., who was born April 
17, 1854, and died January 23, 1887. 

Children : 

1596. i. JOSIE MARIA, bom at Cleveland, O., June 28, 1878. 

1597. ii. CHARLES JOHNSON, born Dec. 12, 1880; died July 

13, 1881. 

1598. iii. CHAUNCEY BRAYTON, bom Oct. 13, 1882. 

1599. iv. JEANNIE ELOISE, born Apr. 22, 1884. 

1600. V. HELEN BEATRICE, born Apr. 15, 1886. 




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948. DEWEY GEORGE HINSDALE/ (Charles Chauncey' Eras- 
tus' Ezra' Jacob* Barnabas' Barnabas' Robert^, son of 
Charles Chauncey Hinsdale and his second wife, Maria 
E. Weeks, born at Cleveland, 0., June 16, 1856, mar- 
ried June 22, 1881, Clara Milton of Indianapolis, Ind. 

Child: 

1601. i. PAUL MILTON, born Sept. 22, 1886. 

961. HENRIETTA SPERRY HINSDALE « (Isaac Orsanus' 
Isaac' Ezra' Jacob* Barnabas^ Barnabas' Robert'), daugh- 
ter of Isaac Orsanus Hinsdale and Luanna B. Sperry, 
his wife, born at Burlington, Conn., December 3, 1839, 
married at Chicago, 111., April 17, 1866, Seth William 
Warren of Buffalo, N. Y. They now reside at Buffalo. 

Children, born at Buffalo, N. Y.: 

1602. i. EMILY, bom Aug. 17, 1868; died at Buffalo, Aug. 5, 

1890. 

1603. ii. NANCY, bom Dec. 6, 1870; married Edward Carrington 

BuU. 

964. SERGEANT AUGUSTUS MASON HINSDALE' (Isaac 
Orsanus' Isaac* Ezra' Jacob* Barnabas' Barnabas' Rob- 
ert'), son of Isaac Orsanus Hinsdale and Luanna B. 
Sperry, his wife, born at Brooklyn, N. Y., March 11, 1844, 
died at Denver, Col., Tuesday evening, November 11, 
1902, aged 58. He married at Newton, la., September 
17, 1865, Martissa L. Kinley. He served in the Union 
Army, 1862 to 1865, in Company K., 28th Iowa Volunteer 
Infantry. He was woimded at Port Gibson, Miss., May 
1, 1863. He served in the line every day for three years, 
taking part in 17 battles, and was promoted to Sergeant. 
He was in the siege of Vicksburg; with Banks in the Red 
River campaign, and with Sheridan in the Shenandoah 
Valley. After his return he lived on a farm for eight 
years, then because of failing health he gave up the hard 
manual labor and entered the Fire Insurance business, 
which he followed the remainder of his life. He lived 
at Denver, Col., but in 1897 he was connected with the 
Orient Insvuance Company and lived at Chicago, 111. 
His widow lives at Denver. He attended the Unitarian 
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330 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Farragut Post No. 46, Grand Army of the Republic, of 
Denver, Col., and also a member of the I. O. O. F. He 
was strictly temperate in his habits, not even using tobacco 
in any form. He was an extremely genial man, one 
who made many friends, and but few enemies, ever ready 
to defend the right and help the needy. 

Children, born at Newton, la. : 

1604. i. LU.AJ^NA M., bom July 4, 1866; married Charles Ford. 

1605. ii. FREDERIIvA, bom Feb. 11, 1872; married WiUiam H. 

Wadley. 

965. CHARLES MASON HINSDALE' (Isaac Orsanus^ Isaac' 
Ezra^ Jacob* Barnabas^ Barnabas* Robert'), son of Isaac 
Orsanus Hinsdale and Luanna B. Sperry, his wife, 
born at Brookl}Ti, N. Y., July 6, 1847, married at Clin- 
ton, Mich., February 2, 1874, Eva Vaughan, born at 
Detroit, Mich., May 24, 1854. His mother dying when 
he was foiu* months old he was raised by his father's mother, 
who brought him to Iowa in 1857. He served one year 
in the Union army in Company C, 7th Iowa Cavalry. 
His present residence is Newton, la. He is connected 
with the firm of Sweet, Dempster & Co., of Chi ago. 111. 

Children, born at Newton, la.: 

1606. i. BESSIE, bom July 2, 1877; married Vester H. Morgan. 

1607. ii. HENRY VAUGHAN, born Feb. 2, 1880; married at 

Newton, la., July 20, 1904, Luella Crockett of Iowa 
City, Iowa. 

1608. iii. CHARLES AUGUSTUS, bom Sept. 24, 1883. 

981. SOLOMON ROCKWELL HINSDALE' (Theodore^ Josiah 

Bissell* Theodore' John* Barnabas^ Barnabas* Robert'), 
son of Theodore Hinsdale and Jerusha Rockwell, his 
wife, born August 25, 1835,- married at Baltimore, 
Md., January 26, 1864, Julia Merritt Jackson, born 
at New York, August 4, 1840, daughter of Samuel Jack- 
son and Julia Ann Brown, his wife. 

Child: 

1609. i. THEODORE ROCKrWELL, bom Jan. 31, 1865. 

982. SARAH ANN MATTHEWS « (Mary Pitkm Hinsdale' Josiah 

Bissell® Theodore' John* Barnabas' Barnabas' Robert'), 




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HINSDALE GENEALOGY 331 

daughter of Selah Matthews and Mary Pitkin Hinsdale, 
his wife, born at Rochester, N. Y., August 25, 1833, 
married, February, 1862, Joseph Harris. 

Children : 

1610. i. MARY MATTHEWS, bom Feb. 24, 1866. 

1611. ii. SELAH MATTHEWS, bom Nov. 8, 1867. 

985. LUCY KIMBALL » (Sarah Wetmore Hinsdale' John" Theo- 
dore^ John* Barnabas^ Barnabas'* Robert'), daughter of 
Elijah H. Kimball and his second wife, Sarah Wetmore 
Hinsdale, born July 22, 1836, died July 11, 1871. She 
married at Flatlands, L. I., N. Y., October 15, 1856, 
Honorable Levi Parsons Morton, of New York, Vice- 
President of the United States (1888-1892), Governor 
of New York and United States Minister to France. 
(No. 1549.) 

989. LORING HINSDALE « (John Theodore' John" Theodore^ 
John* Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert'), son of John Theo- 
dore Hinsdale and Susan Maria Loring, his wife, born April 
19 1840, married October 28, 1875, Clara Holland of 
Cincinnati, O. 

Children : 

1612. i. FRANK CORWIN, bom Apr. 27, 1878; died Mar. 2, 1888. 

1613. ii. CLARENCE HOLLAND, bom Oct. 25, 1884. 

991. CAROLINE H. OLCOTT« (Harriet Ann Hinsdale' John 
Theodore^ John* Barnabas' Barnabas^ Robert'), daughter 
of William Olcott and Harriet Ann Hinsdale, his wife, 
born at Rochester, N. Y., February 28, 1839, married 
at Chicago, 111., February 28, 1860, James Barrett 
Vaughan, born at Stratford, Ky., March 5, 1830, son 
of Elisha Vaughan and Mary Moran, his wife. Mr. 
Vaughan is a lawyer by profession, and an Episcopalian. 
He resided in Kentucky until 1855, and since then in 
Chicago, 111. Mrs. Vaughan and her daughters Mary and 
Isabel resided (1904) in Denver, Col. 

Children : 

1614. i. MARY M., bom Aug. 15, 1861; unmarried in 1898. 

1615. ii. PERCY OLCOTT, bom Jan. 7, 1863; married. 



332 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

1616. iii. LOUIS MILLS, bom Nov. 2, 1868; died Sept. 28, 1890; 

unmarried. 

1617. iv. JAMES, born July 14, 1875; died July 28, 1875. 

1618. V. ISABEL, bom Aug 2, 1876; unmarried in 1898. 

995. COLONEL JOHN WETMORE HINSDALE" (Samuel 
Johnston' John^ Theodore* John^ Barnabas' Barnabas' 
Robert'), son of Samuel Johnston Hinsdale and his first 
wife, Elizabeth Christophers Wetmore, born at Buffalo, 
N. Y. February 4, 1843, married in Christ Church, Raleigh, 
N. C, September 23, 1869, Ellen Devereux, daughter of 
Major John Devereux and Margaret Mordecai, his wife, 
born at Wills Forest, near Raleigh, September 17, 1850. Col- 
onel Hinsdale is a lawyer. He is a Democrat in politics and 
an Episcopalian. He was educated at Fayetteville, N. C, 
and studied three years at the University of North Caro- 
lina. He joined the Confederate arm}^ in 1861, serving 
on the Staff of his uncle, Lieutenant-General T. H. Holmes; 
afterwards Adjutant-General on the Staff of Brigadier- 
General J. J. Pettigrew, and as such served at the battles 
of Seven Pines, 1862; also as Adjutant-General to Major- 
General W. D. Pender in the seven days fight around 
Richmond, 1862; Adjutant-General to General Holmes 
in the Trans-]\Iississipp Department; and distinguished 
himself for coolness and gallantry at the battle of Helena, 
1863. In a letter from General Holmes to President Davis, 
October 20, 1864, recommending him for promotion, he 
said of him: "He is an officer of great merit, both in the 
field and in the office. In the field he is full of energy 
and enterprise, with coolness and discretion. In the 
office few men are more capable." Later he was Colonel 
of the 72nd North Carolina Regiment of the Junior Re- 
serves, which he commanded in the battles of Kingston 
and Benton ville, N. C; and sinrendered with General 
J. E. Johnston's army at High Point, N. C, April 26, 
1865. He was one of the yomigest Colonels in the Con- 
federate service. After the war he studied law at Co- 
lumbia College, New York; was admitted to the bar in New 
York, 1866; and in North Carolina the same year; later 
in the United States Supreme Court. He began practice 
in Fayetteville, but removed to Raleigh in 1875. He was 
attorney for the Raleigh and Gaston R. R. Company, 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 333 

and for various Insurance companies. He published an 
annotated edition of Winston's North Carolina Reports 
in 1878. He is regarded as one of the leading lawyers of 
North Carolina, and confines himself to his profession, 
never having sought political preferment. He is a member 
of the L. O'B. Branch Cam]) Confederate Veterans. Mrs. 
Hinsdale is President of the Johnson Pettigrew Chapter 
United Daughters of the Confederacy, and Treasurer of 
the North Carolina Division of the United Daughters of 
the Confederacy; President Saint Savior's Guild; Vice- 
President Ladies' Hospital Aid Association, and a mem- 
ber of the Wake County Memorial Association; Daugh- 
ters of the Crown; and Colonial Dames. 

Children, born at Raleigh: 

1619. i. MARGARET, bora Nov. 24, 1872; married John Gotten 

Engelhard. 

1620. ii. SAMUEL JOHNSTON, bom Mar. 3, 1875. 

1621. iii. ELIZABETH GHRISTOPHERS, bom July 5, 1877. 

1622. iv. JOHN WETMORE, bom Aug. 21, 1879. 

1623. V. ELLEN DEVEREUX, bom Sept. 5, 1881. 

1624. vi. ANNIE LANE DEVEREUX, bom Jan. 5, 1883. 

996. FRANCES BROADFOOT HINSDALE" (Samuel John- 
ston' John^ Theodore^ John^ Barnabas' Barnabas^ Ro- 
bertO, daughter of Samuel Johnston Hinsdale and his 
first wife, Elizabeth Christophers Wetmore, born at Fay- 
etteville, N. C, November 8, 1845, married there, Octo- 
ber 30 or 31, 1867, Major James Cameron MacRae, son 
of John MacRae and Mary Shackleford, his wife, born 
near Fayetteville, October 6, 1838. He was educated at 
Donaldson Academy. He was subsequently a teacher 
and clerk; and while teaching studied law. He was ad- 
mitted to the bar, August, 1859, and located in Fayette- 
ville. He was a private m Company H., 1st North 
Carolina Volunteers, C. S. A. He enlisted May, 1861; 
was Adjutant 5th North Carolina State Regiment; Major 
and commanded MacRae's Battalion of North Carolina; 
Assistant- Adjutant-General on the staff of General A. L. 
Baker; surrendered with General Johnston's army, 1865. 
He resumed the practice of law after the war, at Fay- 
etteville; a prominent lawyer; member of the firm of 
MacRae and Day; member North Carolina legislature, 



334 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

1874-5; Judge Superior Court, 1882; Justice Supreme 
Court, 1892; Professor of Law and Equity and Dean of the 
Law School, University of North Carolina, 1900. He re- 
sides at Chapel Hill, N. C. He is a member of Phoenix 
Lodge 8, A. F. and A. M., and is an Episcopalian. 

Children, born at Fayetteville, N. C. : 

1625. i. SAMUEL HINSDALE, (Captain), bom Aug. 4, 1868; 

married twice. 

1626. ii. ELIZABETH, born Apr. 30, 1870; married Edmund 

Jones Lilly. 

1627. iii. MARY SHACKLEFORD, bom May 8, 1872; unmar- 

ried in 1900. 

1628. iv. JOHN DONALD, (Doctor), bom Mar. 10, 1874; mar- 

ried June 1, 1898, Mary Hill. 

1629. V. CAMERON FARQUHAR, bom May 27, 1876; married 

Apr. 18, 1900, Fairinda Washington Payne. He is a 
lawyer; resides at Raleigh, N. C. 

1630. vi. JAMES CHRISTOPHER, bom Mar. 29, 1878; unmar- 

ried in 1900. 

1631. vii. THEODORE HINSDALE bom Nov. 1, 1880. 

1632. viii. FANNIE WETMORE, bom Jan. 29, 1883. 

1633. Lx. DUNCAN, born Mar. 7, 1891. 

1001. DOCTOR GUY HINSDALE" (Theodore' John* Theo- 
dore^ John^ Barnabas' Barnabas' Robert*), son of Honor- 
able Theodore Hinsdale and Grace Webster Haddock, his 
wife, born at Brooklyn, N, Y., October 26, 1858, married 
at Philadelphia, Pa., March 11, 1890, Mary Porteous 
Graham, born in Scotland, March 11, 1864, daughter of 
Archibald Maclndoe Graham and Janet Porteous, his 
wife. They removed from Philadelphia to Hot Springs, 
Va., on February 1, 1904. He has a residence there and 
also at Kennebunkport, Me., occupying the latter during 
the summer months. He is a member of the following 
societies: American Medical Association, American Acad- 
emy of Medicine; American Neiu-ological Association; 
American Climatological Association (Secretary); Amer- 
ican Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuber- 
culosis; Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Tu- 
berculosis (ex-President) ; College of Physicians of Phila- 
delphia; Philadelphia Neurological Society; Philadelphia 
County Medical Society; Pennsylvania 'State Medical So- 
ciety; Medical Club of Philadelphia; Alpha i\Iu Pi Omega 




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HINSDALE GENEALOGY 335 

Society of the University of Pennsylvania. He has pub- 
lished a large number of articles in medical journals, also 
several books, viz.: "Essay on Syringomyelia," Philadel- 
phia, 1895, awarded the "Alvarenga Prize;" "Essay on 
Acromegaly," Detroit, 1898, awarded the Boylston Prize of 
Harvard University; Volume on Climatology and Health 
Resorts (System of Physiologic Therapeutics, Blakeston 
&Co.,) Philadelphia, 1902; "The Chmate and Waters of 
Hot Springs, Va." (Transactions of the American CHma- 
tological Association, 1904.) He is a Republican in poh- 
tics, and he and his wife are Presbyterians. 

Child: 

1634. i. JEAN GRAHAM, bom at PhUadelphia, Jan. 4, 1891. 

1003. FRANK WEBSTER HINSDALE « (Theodore' John" 
Theodore^ John* Barnabas' Barnabas' Robert*), son 
of Honorable Theodore Hinsdale and Grace Webster Had- 
dock, his wife, born at Brookl5ai, N. Y., December 13, 
1862, married, at San Francisco, Cal., September 26, 1894, 
Lydia Warren, widow of a Mr. Roberts, and daughter 
of Charles H. Warren of San Francisco. She is a singer 
of note, a graduate of the Royal Academy of London, 
Eng. For a time he resided at Rossland, B. C, and was 
a custom-house broker, and later at Boise City, Idaho. 
His present address is care of Superintendent of Agencies, 
New York Life Insurance Company, New York, N. Y. 

Child: 

1635. i. ETHELWYNDE MARCELLA. 

1007. FRANK GILBERT HINSDALE « (James Henry' WiUiam' 
Theodore^ John* Barnabas^ Barnabas' Robert^, son of 
James Henry Hinsdale and Mary Livingston Gilbert, his 
wife, born in Pittsfield, Mass., February 11, 1874, mar- 
ried, October 1, 1904, Martha Means, born at Boston, 
Mass., August 29, 1879, daughter of Wiliam A. Means of 
Boston, deceased, and Sophia P. Sword, his wife. Mr. 
Hinsdale was graduated from Yale University in the class 
of 1898. He is connected with the firm of Clarence Whit- 
man & Co., of New York. 



336 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Child: 

1636. i. JAMES HENRY, 2d., born at Mattaposiett, Mass., July 10, 

1905. 

1013. CAROLINE HART ANDREWS « (Alfred Andrews 
Roxana Hinsdale' Elijah' John^ Barnabas^ Barna- 
bas^ Robert'), daughter of Deacon Alfred Andrews and 
his first wife, Caroluie Bird Hart, born December 4, 1822, 
baptized February 9, 1823, died Tuesday, November 4, 
1902, at 5 p. M., at Evanston, 111., and was buried Novem- 
ber 6. She was the first child baptized in the (then) 
New North Church in New Britahi, Conn. She married, 
before Reverend S. D. Jewett, January 21, 1852, Elisha 
Burt Bridgman, born at Belchertown, Mass., August 21, 
1823, died at Boston, Mass., January 12, 1898, son 
of Oliver Bridgman of Belchertown, and Betsey Corn- 
weU, of GranviUe, Mass., his wife. He was a farmer and 
mechanic. He was a farmer for several years at Belcher- 
toA\Ti on his father's old homestead, which he sold and 
then spent one j-ear in merchandising at Plain ville. He 
then removed to Easthampton, Mass., where he resided 
from 1869 to 1873, bemg engaged m the manufactui-e of 
wire goods. Mrs. Bridgman was a member of the Con- 
gregational Church there. From 1873 to his death in 
1898 he was a school fiu-nitiu-e dealer in Boston, Mass. 
He was a gentlemanly, intelligent man, with strict temper- 
ance and Republican principles, and by industry and fru- 
gality secured an honest livmg and had a competence. 
His wife , before marriage, was a teacher. She was a woman 
of discrimination, intelligence, and decision of character. 
They were Congregationalists. After her husband's death 
she resided with her daughter, Mrs. James Lyman, at 
Middlefield, Conn., Schenectady, N. Y., and Evanston, 
111., at which latter place she died. Her loss was keenly 
felt by her relatives and friends, who respected her for 
her many strong and excellent traits of character, her 
universal kindness, and generous breadth of thought. 

Children, born at Belcherto-s\Ti, Mass.: 

1637. i. ELIZABETH CORNWELL, born Mar. 6, 1853; died Feb. 

22. 1854. 

1638. ii. OLIVER BURT, born Mar. 8, 1855; died Apr. 12, 1880. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 337 

1636. iii. ANNA JULIA, born July 9, 1857; married Deacon 

James Lyman. 
1640. iv. A child, bom Nov. 6, 1860; died in thirty-six hours. 

1014. MARGARETTE ANDREWS « (Alfred Andrews' Roxana 

Hinsdale* Elijah^ John^ Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert'), 
daughter of Deacon Alfred Andrews and his second wife, 
Mary Lee Shipman, born at New Britain, Conn., August 
30, 1826, baptized October 29, 1826, married before Rev. 
E. B. Andrews, October 17, 1850, at her father's residence. 
Major James Burtis Merwin, born May 22, 1829, at 
Cairo, Green County, N. Y., son of Joseph Ruggles Mer- 
win of Milford, Conn., and Emily Parker of CoventryviUe, 
N. Y., his wife. He was a member of the South Church 
of New Britain, in 1847. She united with the First Con- 
gregational Church in 1841. He became editor of various 
public journals, and an efficient, earnest pubhc speaker 
in Illinois and Michigan. It was in the former state that 
Mr. Merwin became intimately associated with Abraham 
Lincoln, afterwards President of the United States. Mr. 
Merwin delivered a series of lectures on various themes in 
aU the principal cities from Boston to San Francisco. He 
was appointed September 12, 1861, Chaplin-at-large to 
the United States Army by President Lincoln. He spent 
two years as chaplain at Washington, D. C, and in the 
army on the Potomac. In May, 1863, he was made visit- 
ing chaplain to all the hospitals in the Department of the 
East. In 1872, he bceame the editor and founder of the 
American Journal of Education at St. Louis, Mo. He 
was elected President of the Western Publishing and 
School Furnishing Company, also located at St. Louis. 
More recently he has travelled throughout the West, 
lectiu-ing on Shakespeare, on Abraham Lincoln, on edu- 
cation, and other topics. 

Mrs. Merwin has been very active in church work, an 
earnest, competent and efficient teacher in the Simday 
School. Many who have found in her a mother and 
friend "rise up and call her blessed." Thev have no chil- 
dren. 

1015. ELIZA SHIPMAN ANDREWS « (Alfred Andrews' Roxana 

Hinsdale* Elijah' John* Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert*), 



338 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

daughter of Deacon Alfred Andrews and second wife, 
Mary Lee Shipman, born at New Britain, Conn., April 8, 
1828, baptized in 1828, united with the First Congre- 
gational Church of New Britain, December 1, 1850. She 
married September 18, 1850, before Reverend E. B. 
Andrews, then pastor of the First Church in New 
Britain, Deacon Sidney Smith, of Milford and Plain ville. 
Conn., born July 13, 1827, son of Sidney Smith of Milford, 
Conn., and Julia Ann Smith of INIilford, his wife. He 
united with the Congregational Church in Milford in 1843. 
He was a joiner and housebuilder by trade. In 1869 he 
was in merchandising at Leavenworth, Kan. He was a 
deacon in Reverend Mr. Leggett's Church (in 1871, Rever- 
end Mr. Kincaid's) in that city. They resided several 
years in Plain ville, Conn., where he, in company with 
Deacon Ward, was engaged in manufactiu"ing doors, 
sashes, blinds, and carriage wheels. Their factory burned, 
when he went into merchandising, but after two years 
removed to Kansas. For a number of years he carried 
on the book and stationery business in Leavenworth, Kan., 
from whence he removed to IMishawaka, Ind., where he 
superintended the manufacture of school furniture for 
the firm of A. H. Andrews & Co. In 1886 he removed to 
Niles, ]\Iich., where he Uved for a number of years before 
his death, and where his widow and her family now re- 
side. Sidney Smith died January 20, 1892, and was biu-ied 
in Silver Brook Cemetery at Niles. He was a genial, 
whole-hearted man and a devoted Christian. 

Children : 

1641. i. WALTER SIDNEY, bom Sept. 7, 1851; married Ida 

Sandilands. 

1642. ii. ALFRED ANDREWS, born at Plainville, Oct. 16, 1857; 

married Dec. 25, 1893, at Atwood, Kan., CoraHouton, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Houton of Atwood. He 
died Sept. 17, 1904, at Atwood, Kan., where he had been 
engaged in the hardware business for twenty years, and 
was buried in the family lot in Silver Brook Cemetery 
at Niles, Mich. They had no children. 

1643. iii. ELLA MARY, bom at Leavenworth, Kan., Aug. 11, 

1876. 

1016. REVEREND EDWIN NORTON ANDREWS" (Alfred 
Andrews' Roxana Hinsdale" Ehjah'* John^ Barnabas' 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 339 

Barnabas^ Robert'), son of Deacon Alfred Andrews and 
his second wife, Mary Lee Shipman, born at New Brit- 
ain, Conn., September 1, 1832, baptized October 21, 
1832, united with the First Congregational Church at New 
Britain, December 1, 1850. He worked on his father's 
farm until he was about sixteen years of age, and at brass 
in Meriden, Conn., until he was about twenty-one. Hav- 
ing a natural taste for mechanism, he was pleasantly 
occupied at Meriden. He attended chiu-ch at West Meri- 
den, then under the care of Rev. George W. Perkins, to 
whom he was much attached, and was hopefully con- 
verted under his ministry, and thus the foundation was 
laid for his usefulness in after life. He prepared for col- 
lege at SufReld, Conn., and Andover, Mass., and graduated 
at Amherst, Mass., in 1861. He studied divinity at Union 
Theological Seminary, New York City, and excels in 
music. He preached his first sermon in the First Church 
at New Britain, August 9, 1863, and was ordained to the 
ministry, January 5, 1864. He was commissioned as 
chaplain to the 2nd Regiment of Cavalry, of New Jersey, 
December 6, 1863, by the governor of that state. He did 
service as chaplain to that regiment at and near Mem- 
phis, Tenn., until January 16, 1865, when he resigned. 
He preached in South Canaan, Conn., two years, then 
went to Kansas City and supplied a Congregational Church 
one year, and built him a house there. He spent a few 
months at St. Louis, when he married, April 29, 1869, 
at Hillsborough, Montgomery County, lU., Maey Eliza 
Berry, born at Greenville, 111., June 30, 1848, only child 
of Franklin Berry of Kentucky and his second wife, Mary 
Henderson Black, of the same state. She joined an Old 
School Presbyterian Chiu-ch there in 1864. In 1869 he 
was preaching to a Congregational Church in the City of 
Champaign, 111., but left there in September of that year 
for Chicago, where he spent some years in aiding his broth- 
er's business, and in preaching. He attended to the ad- 
vertising of A. H. Andrews & Co., got out their many 
school furniture and supply circulars, and invented the 
name "Hyloplate" for the well-knowTi blackboard. Leav- 
ing this concern, he preached at Crystal Lake, lU., Hart- 
land, Ripon, Peshtigo and Wood worth. Wis., and after- 



340 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

wards removed to Chicago, 111., having given up preach- 
ing. He and his wife are now living with their daughter, 
Mrs. Robert W. Gibbes, in Columbia, So. Car. While in 
Chicago JVlr. Andrews wrote for religious papers, and be- 
came connected ■\\'ith the religious conferences at Chicago 
University. 

Children : 

1644. i. ALFRED HERBERT, born at Chicago, Dec. 6, 1870; 

died July 16, 1871. 

1645. ii. ALFRED BURRITT, born Nov. 26, 1871 • married Jane 

E. Van Etten. 

1646. iii. ETHEL DOLE, born Jan. 13, 1875; married Doctor 

Robert W. Gibbes. 

1017. DEACON CORNELIUS ANDREWS « (Alfred Andrews' 
Roxana Hinsdale' Elijah^ John^ Barnabas' Barnabas' Rob- 
ert'), son of Deacon Alfred Andrews and his second 
wife, Mary Lee Shipman, born November 1, 1834, at 
New Britain, Conn,, was baptized May, 1835. He mar- 
ried, June 25, 1862, Ann Eliza Andrews, born January 
19, 1836, at Wethersfield, Conn., daughter of Samuel J. 
Andrews, then of Wethersfield, and Chloe Ann Francis, 
his wife. Mrs. Andrews died March 24, 1901. She was 
a teacher before marriage. She became a member of the 
First Congregational Church of New Britain, May 6, 1866. 
Cornelius Andrews united with the same church April 
8, 1854. He is a farmer and mechanic, and has always 
resided on the old homestead, two miles west of New 
Britain, built in 1823 by his father. He was also engaed 
quite extensively in making and selling school furniture. 
Since the death of his father he has added considerably 
to the estate by purchase, until he now owns one of the 
finest farms in that part of Connecticut. He is owner of 
the "Brook vale Herd of Jerseys," and before his wife's 
death carried on a creamery business, making butter and 
delivering it in New Britain, Conn. His barns burned in 
1897, but he erected a new barn across the road from the 
house, which combines all the latest improvements. The 
electric road cuts through his property. He has always 
been prominently connected with the First Congregational 
Church, being secretary for a time, and afterwards deacon. 
He was a member of the Committee elected to super- 




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intend the erection of the monument to Ehhu Burritt. 
Mr. Andrews is a kind, conscientious and hberal man, 
respected by every one who knows him. 

Chiklren : 

1647. i. MARY LINCOLN, bom Apr. 14, 1865; died Sept. 26, 1892; 

married Charles Rackard; no children. 

1648. ii. Infant daughter, bom Oct. 31, 1871; died same day. 

1018. ALFRED HINSDALE ANDREWS « (Alfred Andrews^ 
Roxana Hinsdale* Elijah^ John"* Barnabas^ Barnabas^ 
Roberto, son of Deacon Alfred Andrews and his sec- 
ond wife, Mary Lee Shipman, born December 25, 1836, 
at New Britain, Conn., was baptized there June 1, 1837. 
He married, February 6, 1872, at Milwaukee, Wis., Ella 
Cornelia Matson, daughter of Deacon Newell Matson 
of Simsbury, Conn., and Milwaukee, Wis,, and Flora Mehssa 
Case, his wife. He received a common school education, 
and worked on his father's farm until he was about six- 
teen years old, when he worked in Meriden, Conn., at 
mechanical business, and attended one term at the Con- 
necticut Literary Institution in Suffield. He went West 
as far as Chicago, Iowa, and Wisconsin, seeking a living, 
sometimes caUed seeking a fortune. After some time of 
wandering, and passing through various changes and 
vicissitudes, he brought up at the Holbrook Apparatus 
Company, engaged in making and selling school furniture 
in Chicago, where he spent some eight years in their em- 
ploy as a clerk and book-keeper, but not receiving a proper 
compensation for his services, he set up for himself, and 
by dint of hard labor and favoring circumstances he estab- 
hshed an extensive business, both in the manufacture 
and sale of school and office furniture in Chicago, lU., St. 
Louis, Mo., and Leavenworth, Kan., with a branch at Mish- 
awaka, Ind. It is seldom that a young man, with no capi- 
tal but head and hands, is so successful, which shows 
that he had an extra tact and talent for business opera- 
tions. Mr. Andrews is president of the A. H. Andrews 
Company of Chicago, the largest manufacturers of school 
and bank furniture in the world. He is a member of the 
Society of Colonial Wars and of the Congregational Club 
of Chicago. He is a Congregationalist, and a Republican 



342 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

in politics. He has never held a political office as his 
inclinations have been only towards business. Mrs. An- 
drews is prominent in literary and society work; is a mem- 
ber of the Amateur Musical Club and the Woman's Club 
of Chicago, and has been a member of several art and 
literary clubs. Mr. and Mrs. Andrews lived until 1891 in 
Chicago. Since that time they have resided at their 
country home at ElljTiside, Lombard, Du Page County, 
111., where they have a large estate. Mr. Andrews is a 
trustee of the First Congregational Church of Lombard, 
and a member of several church organizations. 

Copy of a Biography of Alfred Hinsdale Andrews, writ- 
ten about 1890, t3q)ewTitt«n, and found among old papers: 

A. H. Andrews, who has achieved high position as an 
enterprising Chicago business man, is the third son of 
Alfred and Mary L. (Shipman) Andrews, both of sterling 
mtegrity and highly esteemed. He was born in New 
Britain, Connecticut, December 25, 1836. His grand- 
father on his father's side was an officer in the war of 
1812. His mother's father was a brass manufacturer, 
conducting that business for many years in New Britain. 
Deacon Alfred Andrews, the father of the subject of our 
sketch, was at one time an extensive manufactiu'er in 
wood, iron and leather. Later m life, as a diversion, he 
tiu-ned his attention to literary pursuits, and prepared 
and published three large works, two of them genealog- 
ical, and all of them showing much labor and careful re- 
search. 

Mr. Andrews attended the common, high and normal 
schools of his native town, and when sixteen years of age 
entered the Suffield Institute (Conn.). When not in 
school, the youth spent his time on the farm at the old 
homestead, and devoted much attention to the study of 
mechanics. In 1854, he became a travellmg agent for 
the New York Independent and in that capacity visited 
Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin. The West offered such 
advantages to young men of energy, that Mr. Andrews 
determmed to settle at Beloit, in the last named state. 
After a year's residence here, however, ill health sug- 
gested the advisability of his returning to his native state, 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 343 

and he left Beloit for his old home in Connecticut. But 
his stay in the East was only temporary. The West, 
with its broad field of enterprise, presented a tempting 
invitation to the yomig man, and in a short time he again 
turned his face toward the setting sun. This time he 
located in Chicago and engaged in the school-furnishing 
business with the Holbrook School Apparatus Company. 
He remained with this company eight years, when he 
formed a partnership with S. Bigelow, under the firm 
name of Andrews & Bigelow. In a short time, however, 
the name of the firm was changed to A. H. Andrews & Co., 
which name it has borne ever since. 

Since the spring of 1884, the firm has been a corpora- 
tion, with Mr. A. H. Andrews as its president. From the 
beginning the business of the house has been very pros- 
perous, showing a high degree of business ability and in- 
tegrity in its management. The firm of Andrews & 
Bigelow had but four thousand dollars capital at its in- 
ception, and yet the first year it did a business of fifty 
thousand dollars. To-day the company represents one of 
the most flourishing and useful manufactm-ing industries 
in Chicago, involving a capital of one million dollars, em- 
ploying twelve hundred men and turning out annually 
two million dollars worth of goods. It is very much the 
largest estabUshment of the kind in the country and per- 
haps in the world. 

The company occupies elegant quarters in the Andrews 
building on Wabash Avenue, in which are the offices, the 
map-moimting rooms, sales rooms and shipping rooms for 
apparatus. The company operates factories in Chicago 
and Buffalo, N. Y., the plant at each place occupying an 
entire square. It also maintains branch houses in New 
York and San Francisco, and agencies in aU the impor- 
tant cities in the world. While Mr. Andrews, as the head 
of the great house, has made his energy and personal abil- 
ities felt in every department of the business, and while 
much of the company's success has been the result of his 
own sterling qualities, his executive ability has been shown 
in no way more clearly than by his selection of men as 
business associates who are possessed of a diversity of 
talent, to which fact is to be attributed much of the pros- 



344 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

perity of the house. Like a competent general j\Ir. An- 
di'ews places the right man in the right place, and the 
details of a large and complicated business are managed 
harmoniously and efficiently. Mr. Andrews is a gentle- 
man of large sympathies and a fine sense of justice, which 
traits of character have also greatly aided his prosperity, 
for they have always assured the most friendly relations 
between him and his army of employes, as well as between 
him and the public at large. 

Though Mr. Andrews has never held office or taken an 
active part in politics, he has always been a consistent 
Republican. 

He is a regulai attendant of the Plymouth Congrega- 
tional Church, and has been almost continuously since 
he first came to Chicago, in 1857. He was in full accord 
with the bold anti-slavery stand maintained by this Church 
before and during the War. 

Mr. Andrews is spoken of by his relatives as very loyal 
and kind to his kindred, and ready to aid those not so 
successful in life as himself. Speaking of "success," how- 
ever, in his, as in most cases, it has not come as mere 
good luck, but only through the closest application and 
remitting zeal. 

Children, born at Chicago, 111. : 

1649. i. BERTHA MATSON, bom June 6, 1874; married Doctor 

Arthur Tenney Holbrook. 

1650. ii. HERBERT CORNELIUS, born Mar. 19, 1883; died May 

31, 1905; unmarried. 

1020. HERBERT LEE ANDREWS « (Alfred Andrews' Roxana 
Hinsdale' Efijah^ John^ Barnabas ^ Barnabas' Robert'), 
son of Deacon Alfred Andrews and his second wife, 
Mary Lee Shipman, born at New Britain, Conn., June 
6, 1844, was baptized October 6, 1844. He Hved with 
his parents, and obtained a common school education, 
with the addition of some two years in the High School of 
New Britain, and one year in the State Normal School, 
located at the same place. When about nineteen years of 
age he went as helper to his brother, Alfred H., at Chicago. 
After spending about one year there he went to Leaven- 
worth, Kan., where he built up a business, which he sold 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 345 

to his brother-in-law, Sidney Smith, who pursues the same 
as one branch of his operations. After spending some 
few months at St. Louis he returned to his brother, at 
Chicago, and entered, with much enthusiasm, into the 
manufacturing department of his company. He has a 
natiu-al taste for drawing and perspective, and a high 
admiration of the beauties of nature. He has an inven- 
tive genius, and has obtained several valuable patents on 
school furniture and appliances. He married Emma Shaw 
CuTHBERT. They now live in Chicago. 

1021. JANE LOUISA ANDREWS « (Alfred Andrews' Roxana 
Hinsdale' Elijah^ Jolm* Barnabas' Barnabas^ Robert'), 
daughter of Deacon Alfred Andrews and his second 
wife, Mary Lee Shipman, was born at New Britain, 
August 10, 1847, and baptized June 1, 1848. She united 
with the First Congregational Church in her native towTi, 
January 7, 1866. She married, June 6, 1866, Honor- 
able Lyman Allen Mills of Middlefield, Conn., Lieu- 
tenant-Governor of Connecticut, born February 25, 1841, 
at Middlefield, son of Reverend Charles Lewis Mills of 
Boston, Mass., and his first wife, Ehzabeth Lyman, daugh- 
ter of Deacon William Lyman of Middlefield, Comi. Mr. 
Mills has a farm and residence pleasantly located near 
David Lyman's and the railroad depot at Middlefield, 
and owns one of the finest herds of "Jerseys" m Connect- 
icut. He is president of the L5^man Gun Sight Corpora- 
tion, and has {other manufactiu"ing and farming interests. 
He was Lieutenant-Governor of Connecticut when Mr. 
Lounsberry was Governor. 

From History of Middlesex County, Conn.: 

"Hon. Lyman Allen Mills was born in Middlefield (then 
a part of Middletown), Middlesex County, Conn., Febru- 
ary 25, 1841, the son of Rev. Charles Lewis Mills, a Con- 
gregational minister, a graduate of Yale College in the 
class of 1835, and Elizabeth Coe Lyman, daughter of Wil- 
liam Lyman, of Middlefield, Comi. He comes from old 
New England stock, descending through both his father 
and mother from Robert Coe, of the Comit}^ of Suffolk, 
England, who emigrated to this country in 1634. Through 



346 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

his father he is descended from John and Priscilla Alden, 
of the "Mayflower" pilgrims (1620). His mother, Eliza- 
beth Coe Lyman, was a descendant of Thomas Welles, 
fourth governor of the Colony of Connecticut, who served 
in 1655 and 1658; and of Richard Lyman, who came to 
America from High Ongar, County of Essex, England, in 
1631. Mr. Mills is nephew of the late David Lyman. 

"In boyhood Lyman A. Mills attended the academies 
of Durham, Conn., and North Bridgewater, Mass., and 
early developed an aptitude for business and financial 
affairs. He has devoted himself chiefly to manufactur- 
ing and to the care and management of various proper- 
ties and estates, in which his great energy and native 
ability have won for him signal success. A Repubhcan 
in politics, Mr. Mills represented his touTi in the General 
Assembly of 1895, serving on the Committee on Finance. 
In November, 1898, he was elected Lieutenant-Governor 
of the State of Connecticut, by a handsome majority — 
Middlesex Comity gave to him her largest vote given at 
that time upon the State ticket. Lieutenant-Governor 
Mills was an eminently successful presiding officer of the 
Senate. His integrity and fidelity in every trust have 
gained for him an honorable reputation, and secured the 
confidence and respect of the people of his State. He is 
president of the Lyman Gun Sight Corporation, a director 
of the American Wringer Company, a trustee of the Middle- 
town Savings Bank, and president of the Levi E. Coe 
Library Association, and holds other positions of trust 
and responsibility. He has been identified with the Con 
gregational Church in Middlefield, and interested in its 
management for forty years. On June 6, 1866, Mr. Mills 
married Jane Louisa, daughter of Deacon Alfred Andrews, 
of New Britain, Conn., the author of the 'Andrews Family 
Genealogy,' 'Stephen Hart and his Descendants,' and 
the 'History of New Britain.' Mrs. Mills traces her 
lineage to the emigrant ancestors Thomas Hooker; 
Thomas Welles, foiu-th governor of the Connecticut Colony; 
William Leete, seventh governor of the Connecticut Col- 
ony, and Capt. Thomas Willet, one of the Plymouth 
Pilgrims, who became the first mayor of New York," 
Children : 



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1651. i. HERBERT [LEE, '^born Feb. 26, 1868; married Bessie 

Delano Kendall. 

1652. ii. CHARLES ROLAND, born Jan. 28, 1877. 

1028. ANGEVINE ANDREWS » (Ezekiel Andrews^ Roxana 
Hinsdale* Elijah" John* Barnabas^ Barnabas^* Robert*), 
daughter of Ezekiel Andrews and Sarah E. Parker, 
his wife, born at New Britain, Conn., September 7, 1835, 
married, at her father's residence, before Rev. Samuel 
Rockwell, September 7, 1857, Lester Shelton Hills, 
born May 22, 1835, son of Harvey Hills of Hartford and 
Anna Bronson, his wife. He was a telegraph operator 
for some years. He lived in New Haven a short time. 
His residence in 1871 was on Lord's Hill, Asylum Avenue, 
in Hartford, Conn., the same formerly owned and occu- 
pied by Rev. Thomas H. Gallaudet. They were both 
members of Reverend Mr. Twichell's congregation. Mr. 
Mills was engaged in erecting telegraph lines and city 
fire alarms. 

Children, born at Hartford, Conn. : 

1653. i. GRACE EUGENIA, born June 9, 1858; died Feb. 11, 

1862, at New Haven; buried at Hartford. 

1654. ii. ANNIE LOUISE, born Oct. 25, 1859; died May 30, 1883. 

1655. iii. LOLA ANGEVINE, bom June 20, 1866. 

1656. iv. MAUD LESTER, born Oct. 30, 1871; died Feb. 19, 1883. 

1031. RODERICK BALDWIN ANDREWS ' (Ezekiel Andrews' 

Roxana Hinsdale" EUjah* John* Barnabas' Barnabas^ 
Robert*), son of Ezekiel Andrews and Sarah E. Parker, 
his wife, born October 9, 1841, married, June 4, 1867, 
at Hartford, Conn., Emma R. Fiske, born October 14, 
1843, at Springfield, Mass., daughter of CarUsle Fiske 
of Springfield and Ehza Ann Davis, his wife. He bought 
out his brother's interest in the old homestead and ran the 
farm and mill some three years, and sold out to his brother- 
in-law, L. S. Hills of Hartford. He went west, locating 
in Chicago, where he was for a time connected with the 
concern of his cousin, A. H. Andrews & Co. He was 
Uving in Chicago in 1889. He removed to Baltimore, Md., 
where he and his wife now reside. They have no children. 

1032. AGNES HOSMER ANDREWS » (Ezekiel Andrews' Roxana 

Hinsdale' Elijah^ John* Barnabas' Barnabas' Robert^, 



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daughter of Ezekiel Andrews and Sarah E. Parker, his 
wife, born November 9, 1843, baptized March 10, 1844, 
married, February 1, 1866, Lieutenant Wilbur D. 
FiSKE, of Boston, born in June, 1841, son of Carhsle Fiske 
of Springfield, Mass., and EUza Ann Davis, his wife. He 
was a lieutenant in the Union Army, and was shot through 
the lungs, but recovered partially, and was engaged m an 
agency for parties in Boston and New York. 

Child: 

1657. i. HOWARD, bom at Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1869. 

1033. NATHAN HALL ANDREWS « (Ezekiel Andrews' Roxana 
Hinsdale* Ehjah^ John^ Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert^, son 
of Ezekiel Andrews and Sarah E. Parker, his wife, 
born March 7, 1846, at New Britain, Conn., was unmar- 
ried in 1872. He was a rover, and at one time a driver 
of a public carriage in New York City, but in December, 
1871, was a member of the Detective police in New York. 
He had an active mind, was wonderfully prolific of expe- 
dients, and it was judged he would make an expert in 
that calling. 

1047. MARY ELIZABETH HINSDALE « (John' Hosea" John ^ 
John* Barnabas' Barnabas' Robert^, daughter of John 
Hinsdale and Amanda Malvina Alvord, his wife, born 
March 18, 1848, married, June 19, 1867, Robert R. 
Noble, of Williamstown, Mass., born September 27, 1840. 
They live at Winsted, Conn. 

Children : 

1658. i. SUSIE ALVORD, bom Apr. 9, 1868; died Mar. 1, 1869. 

1659. ii. JOHN HINSDALE, bom Oct. 3, 1872; died July 5, 1873. 

1660. iii. ROBERT CHAMBERLAIN, born Oct. 3, 1872; died 

July 3, 1873. 

1050. CATHERINE B. COOK« (James H. Cook' Amelia Hins- 
dale" John" John* Barnabas' Barnabas' Robert'), daughter 
of James H. Cook and Sarah E. Stillman, his wife, born 
February 16, 1835, married. June, 1855, Doctor George 
R. Gyles. 

Children : 

1661. i. ROBERT ROSS, bom July 3, 1857. 

1662. ii. GEORGE RALPH, born May, 1867. 



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1051. ELLEN F. COOK« (James H Cook' Amelia Hinsdale" 

John* John* Barnabas' Barnabas' Robert'), daughter of 
James H. Cook and Sarah E. Stillman, his wife, born 
March 31, 1839, died May 4, 1858. She married, October 
26, 1856, Samuel E. Staples, 

ChUd: 

1663. i. NELLIE E., died Sept. 24, 1858. 

1052. ANSON B. COOK* (James H. Cook' Amelia Hinsdale* 

John* John* Barnabas' Barnabas'" Robert'), son of James 
H. Cook and Sarah E. Stillman, his wife, born October 
28, 1843, married, July, 1875, Minnie Frey. 

Child: 

1664. i. NELLIE F. bom June 2, 1879. 

1055. EDWARD SHERMAN COOK« (Sherman Tuttle Cook' 

Ameha Hinsdale' John* John* Barnabas' Barnabas' Ro- 
bert'), son of Sherman Tuttle Cook and his first wife, 
Cornelia Emeline Jaqua, born December 20, 1841, mar- 
ried at Momence, 111., September 8, 1869, Sue L. Lynds, 
daughter of David and Loraine Lynds. They are hving 
at Momence. 

Children : 

1665. i. HATTIE LORAINE, born Feb. 23, 1871. 

1666. ii. LYNDS SHERMAN, born Sept. 3, 1872. 

1056. FREDERICK MONROE COOK« (Sherman Tuttle Cook' 

Amelia Hinsdale' John* John* Barnabas' Barnabas' 
Robert'), son of Sherman Tuttle Cook and his first wife, 
Corneha Emeline Jaqua, born March 28, 1843, married at 
Gorham, N. H., June 18, 1868, Persis Emily Leavitt, 
daughter of Jerome and Mary Leavitt. 

Children : 

1667. i. LOUISE PERSIS, bom July 16, 1869. 

1668. ii. JEFFERY FREDERICK, bom July 7, 1871. 

1669. iii. MARY ANNA, bom July 18, 1878. 

1057. CORNELIA ELVIRA COOK* (Sherman Tuttle Cook' 

Amelia Hinsdale' John* John* Barnabas' Barnabas^ Rob- 
ert'), daughter of Sherman Tuttle Cook and his first 
wife, Corneha Emeline Jaqua, born September 15, 1850, 



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married at Mattoon, 111., Januar}^ 5, 1869, David Wash- 
ington Tryon, son of David and Artemisia Tryon. They 
live at Spartanburg, Cra-w^ord County, Pa, 

Children : 

1670. i. ALLEN COOK, bom Apr. 9, 1870. 

1671. ii. LUCIA ARTEMISIA, born July 22, 1872. 

1672. iii. EUGENE NEWTON, born Jan. 16, 1875. 

1673. iv. FRANK SHERMAN, bom Dec. 12, 1876. 

1058. EMMA AMELIA COOK « (Sherman Tuttle Cook' Amelia 

Hinsdale' John^ John^ Barnabas^ Barnabas- Robert^, 
daughter of Sherman Tuttle Cook and his first wife, 
Cornelia Emeline Jaqua, born October 3, 1853, married 
at TryonviUe, Pa., October 22, 1872, George Webster 
Tryon, son of David and Artemisia Tryon. They 
were living at Tryon ville in 1879. 

Child: 

1674. i. GEORGE SCHUYLER, bom Aug. 26, 1873. 

1059. HORACE MALCOLM BUTLER' (William Hinsdale Butler' 

Chloe Hinsdale* Barnabas' DanieP Barnabas' Barnabas^ 
Robert'), son of William Hinsdale Butler and Barbara 
Wygatt, his wife, born February 1, 1828; died January 27, 
1868. He married, September 15, 1846, Cornelia Cath- 
erine DORMAN. 

Children : 

1675. i. KATE HENRIETTA, bora June 7, 1847; married James 

Merwin Smith. 

1676. ii. EMMA LOUISE, bora Oct. 17, 1848; married twice. 

1677. iii. HENRY MITCHELL, bom Jan. 10, 1857; died Aug. 1, 

1857. 

1063. LOUISE CALDWELL BUTLER* (Jeremiah Butler' Cliloe 
Hinsdale" Barnabas' DanieP Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert'), 
daughter of Jeremiah Butler and EHzabeth Ogden Ward, 
his wife, born April 16, 1829, died March 19, 1863. She 
married, March 8, 1853, John Randall Whitney of 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

Children : 

1678. i. BESSIE BUTLER, bora June 9, 1856; married Doctor 

Arthur Van HarUngen. 



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1679. ii. WILLIAM WALLACE, bom Aug. 17, 1858. 

1680. iii. CHARLES HENRY, bom July 11, 1861. 

1681. iv. LOUIS BUTLER, bom Feb. 13, 1863; married Mary 

Ella Head. 

1068. HENRY LEWIS BUTLER « (Jeremiah Butler' Chloe Hins- 

dale" Barnabas' Daniel* Barnabas' Barnabas^ Robert^, 
son of Jeremiah Butler and Ehzabeth Ogden Ward, his 
wife, born June or July 25, 1837, married January 15, 1863, 
Harriet Emma Hale, who was born June 23, 1837, and 
died July 20, 1899 He lives at Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, 
Pa. 

Children : 

1682. i. CHARLES FOSDICK, bom Nov. 8, 1863; died May 31, 

1889. 

1683. ii. HENRY LEWIS, bom Mar. 29, 1866. 

1684. iii. HARRIET ELIZABETH, bom Oct. 30, 1870. 

1685. iv. LOUIS CALDWELL, born Jan. 31, 1875. 

1069. PRESTON BUTLERS (Jeremiah Butler' Chloe Hinsdale" 

Barnabas" Daniel* Barnabas' Barnabas^ Robert'), son of 
Jeremiah Butler and Ehzabeth Ogden Ward, his wife, born 
October 22, 1841, died January 13, 1889. He married 
June 23, 1868, Isabella E. Good, born May 4, 1846. 
Lived in Germantown, Pa. 

Children: 

1686. i. PRESTON, bom May 14, 1869; married Dec. 6, 1898, 

Maud Dinsmore. 

1687. ii. SUSAN GOOD, born May 18, 1871. 

1688. iii. ELIZABETH OGDEN, born Sept. 7, 1873. 

1698. iv. ROBERT HANSON, bom Feb. 25, 1877; died July 9, 
1877. 

1690. V. HARRIS AVERY, bom Apr. 4, 1882. 

1073. HORACE HINSDALE BUTLER « (Henry Butler' Chloe 
Hinsdale" Barnabas" DanieP Barnabas' Barnabas^ Robert^, 
son of Henry Butler, Jr. and his first wife, Martha Hins- 
dale, born October 11, 1835, married June 5, 1866, Anna 
Fletcher Gordon, who died February 27, 1903. He 
lives in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Children : 

1691. i. MARTHA HINSDALE, bom Aug. 21, 1867. 



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1692. ii. MABEL GORDON, bom June 10, 1870; married Oct. 3, 

1900, Charles M. Burtis; they had one daughter, Helene 
Gordon Burtis, bom Dec. 1901; died July 3, 1904. 

1693. iii. HORACE FLETCHER, bom Sept. 2, 1872; died 1877. 

1694. iv. ROBERT GORDON, bom Sept. 2, 1874; married May 

28, 1903, Edna Tompkins; they have one daughter, 
Mildred Anna Butler, bom in June, 1904. 

1695. V. FLORENCE FLETCHER, bom July 16, 1878; married 

June 17, 1903, Horatio Wesley Lewis; they have one 
daughter, Anna Gordon Lewis, bom in December, 1904. 

1075. REVEREND HENRY SEYMOUR BUTLERS (Henry 
Butler' Chloe Hinsdale' Barnabas* Daniel^ Barnabas^ 
Barnabas^ Robert'), son of Henry Butler, Jr. and his first 
wife, Martha Hinsdale, born October 19, 1840, married 
first, Maria Patterson, born September 27, 1839, died 
September 24, 1901. He married second, January 24, 
1904, Mary Rebeka Mossop, born August 9, 1848. He 
is pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Blairstowii, N. J. 

Children : 

By his first wfe, Maria Patterson. 

1696. i. CORTLANDT PATTERSON, bom Nov. 4, 1868; married 

Nov. 24, 1897, Maud Valentine; no children. 

1697. ii. WILLL\M PATTERSON, bom Nov. 14, 1871; died July 

22, 1872. 

1698. iii. JOSEPH PATTERSON, bom July 2, 1873; died June 

16, 1881. 

1699. iv. HORACE GRAHAM, born March 13, 1877; married 

Sept. 17, 1901, Jessie V. Skelton; they have one daugh- 
ter, Catherine Richards Butler, born Dec. 16, 1902. 

1700. V. EMMA SEYMOUR, born Oct. 19, 1878. 

1701. vi. HENRY, bom Aug. 21, 1880; died Nov. 13, 1881. 

1086. JAMES CRANE HINSDALE « (Charles James' Epaphras' 
Barnabas^ Daniel* Barnabas' Barnabas' Robert'), son of 
Reverend James Hinsdale and his first wife, Catherine 
Banks Crane, born November 25, 1825, died at Meriden, 
Conn., January 18, 1903, at 9 p. m. He married first 
November 18, 1856, Elizabeth Ann Pratt of Meriden, 
who was born September 12, 1833, and died Februar}^ 
27, 1870. He married second, August 21, 1872, Marx 
L. TuTTLE of Blandford, Mass. At the age of ten, he 
accompanied his parents to Blandford. He was grad- 
uated from Yale in 1848. After practicing law in Spring- 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 353 

field, Mass., he removed to Meriden, Conn. For several 
years, he was registrar of voters and took an active in- 
terest in local politics. 

Children, born at Meriden, Conn: 

By his first wife, Elizabeth Ann Pratt. 

1702. i. CATHERINE ELIZABETH, bom Jan. 12, 1858; died 

Feb. 25, 1858. 

1703. ii. ANNA PRATT, bom May 29, 1860; married Nov. 27, 

1902. William F. Whiting of Brooklyn, N. Y. 

1704. iii. CATHARINE CRANE, bom May 10, 1862; married 

Francis Bacon Fairbanks. 

1705. iv. CHARLES J., bom Oct. 20, 1865; married Clara Dowd. 

1706. V. ELIZABETH AARONNA, bom Mar. 19, 1869; died Dec. 

18, 1875. 
By his second wife, Mari L. Tuttle. 

1707. vi. JAMES HENRY, bom May 21, 1873; married Oct. 19, 

1904, Bessie Gay Linsley, daughter of Charles F. Lins- 
ley of Meriden, Conn. 

1708. vii. MARIE ELLA, bom Jan. 30, 1875; married June 15, 

1904, Walter Bames Crattenden of East River, Conn., 
now of Hartford, Conn. 

1709. viii. WILLIAM EPAPHRAS, bom May 1, 1877; died Aug. 

15, 1877. 

1710. ix. WILLIAM EPAPHRAS, born June 18, 1878; married. 

1711. X. WILSON HEATH, bom Sept. 22, 1880; living at Meriden, 

Conn. 

1088. WILLIAM EPAPHRAS HINSDALE « (Charles James' 
Epaphras' Barnabas^ Daniel* Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert^, 
son of Reverend Charles James Hinsdale and his first wife, 
Catherine Banks Crane, born October 11, 1830, married 
November 26, 1867, Christiana Goodwin of Westfield, 
Mass., born October 2, 1841. They reside at Blandford, 
Mass. 

Children, born at Blandford, Mass. : 

1712. i. HELEN BLAIR, bom July 23, 1869. 

1713. ii. CATHARINE BANKS, bom Nov. 26, 1871. 

1091. ELIZABETH H. GOBLE^ (Emily Seymour Hinsdale' 
Epaphras' Barnabas^ Daniel* Barnabas* Barnabas^ Robert^), 
daughter of Doctor Jabez G. Goble and Emily Seymour 
Hinsdale, his wife, born September 11, 1824, married at 
Newark, N. J. , December 24, 1853, Stephen A. Hasley 



354 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

of Astoria, Long Island, N. Y. She died there, January 

4, 1897. 

Children, born at Astoria, Long Island, N. Y. : 

1714. i. SPENCER GOBLE, bom Aug. 21, 1854; died July 7, 

1855. 

1715. ii. EMILY SEYMOUR, bom July 13, 1855; married Robert 

B. Tisdale. 

1716. iii. MARY ALLING, bom Nov. 20, 1856. 

1717. iv. FRANCIS SPENCER, (Doctor), bom Jan. 7, 1861; 

received degree of M. D.; married in New York City, 
Sept. 23, 1891, Annie Seer. 

1103. HONORABLE PRESTON B. PLUMB « (David Pliimb' 
Catherme Hinsdale" Barnabas^ DanieP Barnabas^ Barnabas^ 
Roberto, LTnited States Senator from Kansas, son of David 
Plumb and Hannah Maria Bierce, liis wife, born October 
12, 1837, married March 8, 1867, Caroline A. SouTH^acK. 
He lived at Emporia, Kansas. 

1113. REVEREND ROBERT GRAHAM HINSDALE, A. M., 

5. T. D.' (Henry Butler' Horace Seymour* Barnabas' 
Daniel^ Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Henry 
Butler Hinsdale and his first wife, Laura Clark, born in 
New York City, November 2, 1833, died at Biloxi, Miss., 
January 9, 1889. He married, first, in 1860, Emma Van 
DuYN, who died October 12, 1861. He married, second, 
Mart Tolhurst, of New York City, who died at Geneva, 
N. Y., Jime 3, 1879. He married, third, in 1881, Laura 
Fenling, a highly cviltivated lady, widely knowm for her 
historical and hterary contribution to the periodical press. 
She is also a poet of real genius. In 1897 she lived at 
Biloxi, Miss., but is now (1904) living at Denver, Colorado. 
Reverend Robert Graham Hinsdale was graduated at 
Princeton College, N. J., in 1856; received degree of A. M. 
in 1859; spent seven years in the Presbyterian ministry 
in New York; attended the Theological Seminary at 
Nashotah, Wis. ; was then ordained priest in the Protestant 
Episcopal Chiu-ch by Bishop Kemper of Wisconsin; in 1866 
called to the professorship of chemistry and geology in 
Racine College, Wisconsin; was organist in Racine College; 
also musician and composer of sacred music. In 1876 he 
received the degree of S. T. D. from Hobart College, Geneva, 




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HINSDALE GENEALOGY 355 

N. Y., of which college he was made President the same 
year. In 1878 he officiated at St. Augustine, N. Y. In 
1879-80 he visited Europe in the interest of Hobart College. 
In 1883, on account of severe illness he resigned the Presi- 
dency of Hobart College, and sought a southern climate, 
and the same year accepted a call as rector of the church of 
Biloxi, Miss. He was a correspondent of numerous scien- 
tific and learned societies and academies of Europe and 
America, and was deeply versed in problems of modern 
science. He was associated with state geological surveys, 
and was a beloved professor and an eloquent speaker. 
A beautiful memorial church at Biloxi commemorates 
his life. He was a man of superior ability and prominence. 

Child: 

By his first wife, Emma Duyn. 

1718. i. WILLIAM LEWIS, (Doctor), living at Syracuse, N. Y., 

in 1897. 

1114. ANNA WEATHERBURN HINSDALE « (Henry Butler^ 
Horace Seymour' Barnabas^ Daniel* Barnabas^ Barnabas* 
Roberto, daughter of Henry Butler Hinsdale and his 
second wife, Mary Hatch, born July 25, 1840, married, 
October 25, 1859, at Kenosha, Wis., Right-Reverend 
Hugh Miller Thompson, of Jackson, Miss., Episcopal 
Bishop of Mississippi, who died November 18, 1902. 

Children : 

1719. i. MARY WEATHERBURN, born May 17, 1861; married 

Reverend William Torrey Howe. 

1720. ii. HUGH GRAEME, bom May 13. 1867; married July 6, 

1888, Annie May White of Raymond, Miss.; no chil- 
dren. 

1122. ELIZABETH BUTLER « (Juha Hinsdale' Horace Seymour* 
Barnabas^ Daniel* Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert*), daughter 
of Daniel Butler and Julia Hinsdale, his wife, born at Green 
Bay, Wis., August 10, 1847, married there, December 26, 
1871, George W. Lamb of Chicago. She was living at 7023 
Stewart Avenue, Chicago, 111., in 1898. 

Children : 

1721. i. GEORGE BUTLER, bom at De Pere, Wis., Dec. 14, 1872; 

died Jan. 22, 1873. 



356 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

1722. ii. DANIEL BUTLER, bom at De Pere, Oct. 3, 1876. 

1723. iii. JAY KAY, bom at De Pere, Nov. 28, 1877 

1724. iv. ROBERT WILLIAJSI, bom at Green Bay, Wis., Nov. 14, 

1882; died there March 16, 1883. 

1725. V. JOHN WALLACE, bom at Green Bay, Mar. 6, 1885 

1123. WHJJAM COURTENAY HINSDALE « (WiUiam Lewis^ 
Horace Seymour' Barnabas" DanieP Barnabas' Barnabas^ 
Roberto, son of William Lewis Hinsdale and Isabella P. 
Courtenay, his wife, born at Kenosha, Wis., Oct. 2, 1847, 
married, October 12, 1881, Minnie Chase Gardner. 

Children, born at Green Bay, Wis. : 

1726. i. ISABELLA COURTENAY, bom Nov. 2, 1882. 

1727. ii. FLORENCE GARDNER, bom Dec. 27, 1886. 

1132. JAMES TILEY HINSDALE, JR.« (James Tiley' DanieP 
DanieP Daniel^ Barnabas' Barnabas^ Robert^ son of 
James Tiley Hinsdale and his second wife, Mary Walker ^ 
born at Hartford, Conn., August 7, 1836, died at Hart- 
ford, May 17, 1863. He married at Hartford, April 28, 
1859, Eliza Chamberlain, who died at Hartford Feb- 
ruary 1, 1888. 

Child: 

1728. i. LILLIAN MAY, born Feb. 20, 1861; married Alonzo 

Cicero Smeed. 

1136. CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH HAYDEN« (Lucretia Law 
Hinsdale' DanieP DanieP DanieP Barnabas^ Barnabas^ 
Roberto, daughter of Captain Samuel Strong Hayden 
and Lucretia Law Hinsdale, his wife, born January 21, 
1847, married, September 26, 1876, Henry H. Hull of 
Bath, Steuben Coimty, N. Y., who died January 9, 1890. 
She is now living at Bath. 

Children : 

1729. i. HENRY HAYDEN, bom June 24, 1879. 

1730. ii. ERNEST H., bom Oct. 8, 1882. 

1731. iii. ROBERT SEDGWICK, bom Jan. 29, 1884. 

1732. iv. CHARLOTTE ELINOR, bom Oct. 25, 1885. 

1140. OSCAR B. HINSDALE » (Sylvester Deering' DanieP DanieP 
DanieP Barnabas' Barnabas' Robert'), son of Sylvester 
Deering Hinsdale and Frances Burnap, his wife, born 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 357 

September 26, 1869; married at Santa Barbara, Cal,, 
March 15, 1898, Evangeline Nixon. He was secretary 
and treasurer of the Umpqiia River Steam Navigation 
Company at Gardiner, Ore. 

Children : 

1733. i. GEORGE SPENCER, bom Feb. 17, 1899. 

1734. ii. OSCAR HOWARD, bom Feb. 21, 1901. 

1141. HERBERT FAY ROBINSON « (Joanna Dean Hinsdale^ 
Joseph" Joseph' Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas' Robert^, son 
of Stephen Fay Robinson and Joanna Dean Hinsdale, his 
wife, born April 16, 1853, married, June 3, 1885, Lizzie 
Elvira Eddy, daughter of Almon and Elvira Eddy of 
Bennington, Vt. She was born December 28, 1856, and 
died April 16, 1887. He is assistant Postmaster at Ben- 
nington, Vt. 

Child: 

1735. i. STEPHEN ALMON, bom May 6, 1886. 

1143. LY]\IAN HINSDILL » (MUo' DanieP Joseph' Joseph* Isaac' 

Barnabas' Robert*), son of Milo Hinsdill and Julia Breck- 
enridge, his wife, married Lucy A, Dart, and died in 1857. 
He lived in Bennington, Vt. 

Child: 

1736. i. JULIA, bom at Bennington, Vt., Aug. 18, 1857; died 

1870. 

1144. CORNELIA HINSDILL » (Milo' DanieP Joseph' Joseph* 

Isaac' Barnabas' Robert^, daughter of Milo Hinsdill and 
Julia Breckenridge, his wife, married Warner Hatha- 
way. 

ChUd: 

1737. i. MILO, married Annie Brown. 

1145. EDWARD HINSDILL;" (MUo' Daniel' Joseph' Joseph* 

Isaac' Barnabas' Robert*), son of Milo Hinsdill and Julia 
Breckenridge, his wife, born at Bennington, Vt., Septem- 
ber 3, 1836, died m Grand Rapids, Mich., October 18, 
1889. He married Nancy M. Towsley of North Benning- 
ton, Vt. She was born in Hinsdill ville, Vt., November 
21, 1840. 



358 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Children, born at North Bennington, Vt.: 

1738. i. LYMAN R., (Doctor), born April 4, 1865; married Lucy 

Thomas. 

1739. ii. ARTHUR, born Jan. 11, 1867; married Ella Devendorf. 

1740. iii. LILLIAN, bom June 30, 1868; married Charles O. 

Smedley. 

1741. iv. MYLA, bom Sept. 28, 1869. 

1146. NORMAN HINSDILL » (Milo' Daniel" Joseph^ Joseph* Isaac" 
Barnabas^ Robert'), son of Milo Hinsdill and Julia Breck- 
enridge, his wife, born at Bennington, Vt., died July 4, 
1893. He married Abigail Emerson of Troy, N. Y. 

Children : 

1742. i. JULIA. 

1743. ii. GRACE. 

1744. iii. CLARA. 

1149. GEORGE HINSDILL' (Alonzo' Daniel" Joseph^ Joseph* 

Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Alonzo Hinsdill and 
Persis Fisk Henry, his wife, born at Bennington, Vt., 
married Fanny Reeves. He is now living at North 
Bennington, Vt. 

Children, born at North Beimington, Vt.: 

1745. i. FRANK, bom Mar. 26, 1868; died Mar. 10, 1901. 

1746. ii. CHARLES ALONZO, born Nov. 23, 1869; married June 

1, 1904, Aimee Belle Rogers of Windsor, N. Y.; they 
have a son, Roger Charles Hinsdill, born at Troy, N. Y., 
May 10, 1905. 

1 150. ELIZA HINSDILL ' (Alonzo' Daniel" Joseph^ Joseph^ Isaac" 

Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter of Alonzo Hinsdill and Per- 
sis Fisk Henry, his wife, died in 1893. She married 
William J. Toombs. 

Children : 

1747. i. LYMAN H., born July 23, 1874; attended Williams Col- 

lege at Williamstown, Mass., in 1896; was connected 
with the College Annual; resided with a married half 
sister at Wilbraham. 

1748. ii. ELBRIDGE GALE, born May 5, 1877. 

1152. WHEELER HINSDILL' (Milton' Daniel" Joseph^ Joseph^ 
Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert'), son of Milton Hinsdill and 
Diana Albina Wheeler, his wife, born at Berlin, N. Y., 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 359 

April 15, 1842, married at Troy, N. Y., December 24, 1867, 
Martha J. Dyke. 

Child: 

1749. i. AUGUSTA, born at Troy, N. Y., Dec. 24, 1869; married 

at Westfield, N. J., Aug. 24, 1895, Charles Clarke Hunt. 

1155. HENRIETTA BARNARD « (Helen Hinsdale Tracy' Han- 

nah HinsdiU" Joseph' Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert'), 
daughter of Nathaniel Pease Barnard and Helen Hinsdale 
Tracy, his wife, born at Whitesboro, N. Y., October 18, 
1838, died at Dayton, N. Y., February 9, 1896. She 
married at Newark, 111., July 15, 1857, W. L. Wilbur. 

Child: 

1750. i. JENNIE, married a Mr. Cobb; resided at Dayton, N. Y., 

in 1896. 

1156. LUCRETIA BARNARD « (Helen Hinsdale Tracy' Hannah 

Hinsdill* Joseph' Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert'), daugh- 
ter of Nathaniel Pease Barnard and Helen Hinsdale Tracy, 
his wife, born at Newark, 111., December 8, 1840, married 
there, October 13, 1859, N. B. Davisson. She resided at 
298 Erie Street, Chicago, 111., in 1896. 

1157. HELEN ALCESTA BARNARD « (Helen Hinsdale Tracy' 

Hannah HinsdilP Joseph' Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Rob- 
ert'), daughter of Nathaniel Pease Barnard and Helen 
Hinsdale Tracy, his wife, born at Newark, 111., October 
12, 1842, died at Jefferson, 111. She married at Newark, 
John W. Brown. 

Child: 

1751. i. ROBERT C, resided at River Forest, 111., in 1896. 

1165. NINA MAUD BARNARD « (Helen Hinsdale Tracy' Han- 
nah Hinsdill* Joseph' Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas' Robert'), 
daughter of Nathaniel Pease Barnard and Helen Hms- 
dale Tracy, his wife, born at Newark, 111., June 12, 1859, 
married there, May 5, 1880, Charles S. Wirick. She 
resided at 497 12th Street, Detroit, Mich., in 1896. 

Child: 

1752. i. HELEN PEARL, born at Muskegon, Mich., July 7, 1881. 



360 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

1166. CAPTAIN STEPHEN HINSDILL BALLARD' (Emeline 
Hinsdill' Stephen' Joseph^ Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ Rob- 
ertO, son of Reverend James Ballard and Emelme Hms- 
dill, his wife, born at Bennington, Vt., July 19, 1836, 
died of heart disease at Grand Rapids, Mich., November 
9, 1890. He was married at St. Mark's Church, Grand 
Rapids, by Dr. J. P. Tustin, Rector, September 24, 1867, 
to Sarah S. Nelson, who died at her home near Denver, 
Colo., Sunday, February 12, 1899, eldest daughter of James 
M. Nelson of Grand Rapids. In 1839 his parents removed 
to Grand Rapids, where he resided until 1880. His edu- 
cation was obtamed in the schools of that city and at Ann 
Arbor, Mich. In 1858 and 1859 he was engaged with a 
party in surveying the then wild lands of Northern Minne- 
sota. He then returned to Grand Rapids and commenced 
the study of law. After reading law for a short time he 
attended the law school at Ann Arbor for one year, and 
on retvu-ning to Grand Rapids entered the law office of 
Holmes & Champlin, where he read law imtil liis enlistment 
in the army, August 4, 1862. He was admitted to prac- 
tice by the Kent Coimty Circuit Court in the summer of 
1862. He was mustered into the service as Second Lieu- 
tenant of Company A., Sixth Regiment of Michigan Cav- 
alry, October 13, 1862, and was a member of that com- 
pany until he was honorably mustered out of the service, 
Jime 21, 1865, by reason of the close of the war. He was 
promoted to First Lieutenant June 10, 1863. At the 
Battle of Gettysbiu-g July 2, 1863, he was taken prisoner 
and remained a prisoner of war something over twenty 
months, being confined at Libby Prison, Richmond, Va., 
Macon, Ga., and Columbia and Charleston, So. Car., at which 
latter place he was one of a number of federal officers 
selected and placed under the fire of federal gims in the bom- 
bardment of the city by the Union troops. While in Libby 
prison he was a member of the band who organized the 
plan to escape by the celebrated timnel imder the walls 
of that prison, but did not escape by reason of the prema- 
ture discovery of the plot by the confederates. He was 
exchanged early in the year 1865 and rejoined his regi- 
ment at Petersburg. He participated in the grand re- 
view and went west with his regiment as far as Fort Leaven- 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 361 

worth. He was commissisoned First Lieutenant and ap- 
pointed Captain. He was mustered out as Second Lieu- 
tenant June 21, 1865, and honorably discharged. He re- 
turned to Grand Rapids, and after reading law and at- 
tending the law school at Ann Arbor, in January, 1866, 
he commenced practice as a member of the firm of Holmes 
& Ballard, and from that time until the year 1880 he was in 
the active practice of his profession, diu-ing that period 
being a member of the firm of Standish & Ballard, and 
Assistant United States District Attorney for the Western 
District of Michigan, He was also connected with the firm 
of Taggart & Simonds. He was Prosecuting Attorney of 
Kent Coimty from 1876 to 1878, and member of the firm 
of Ballard & Maynard until his removal to Colorado. 

His health was so impaired by hardship and exposure 
while a prisoner of war that he never regained it, and in 
1880 he was forced to a change of climate. Captain Bal- 
lard engaged in the business of sheep farming in Colorado,' 
near Denver, for about four years. Li 1882 he was elected 
a member of the Colorado Legislature for two years. In 
1884 he removed to Boulder, Colo., where he practiced law 
and was City Attorney. In the spring of 1887 he took 
up his residence in Denver. He opened a law office there 
and was engaged in the active practice of law imtil his last 
sickness. At his death resolutions were adopted by the 
Kent County Bar Association, expressing respect for the 
character and life of the deceased and sympathy with his 
bereaved family. On the death of his widow resolutions 
were adopted by the Ladies' Literary Club of Grand Rap- 
ids, of which she was a prominent and devoted member. 
She was a well-informed and noble woman, quiet and 
unostentatious, loved and respected by all. 

Children, born at Grand Rapids, Mich.: 

1753. i. ANNA MARGARITTA, born July 5, 1868; married Wil- 

liam W. Ballard. 

1754. ii. CAROLINE NELSON, born Mar. 16, 1870; married John 

Alnutt Talbot. 

1755. iii. CHARLOTTE EMELINE,bom Feb. 19, 1872, or Feb. 

20, 1873; baptized at St. Marks Church, Grand Rapids, 
by Rev. Samuel Earp, Rector. 

1756. iv. CAROLINE BRIDGE, bom Oct. 3, 1875; died Oct. 

13, 1875. 



362 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

1167. ELIZABETH WHITNEY BALLARD « (Emeline Hinsdill' 
Stephen' Joseph^ Joseph' Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert*), 
daughter of Reverend James BaUard and Emehne Hins- 
dill, his wife, born at Grand Rapids, Mich., July 22, 1841, 
married at Grand Rapids, August 11, 1863, Colonel 
Henry E. Thompson, of Grand Rapids, a lawyer. He 
was Captain of the 6th Michigan Cavalry, October 13, 
1862; Lieutenant-Colonel, Jime 10, 1863; wounded in 
action at Hunterstown, Pa., July 2, 1863; honorably dis- 
charged for disability, Jime 6, 1864; Brevet Colonel, U. S. 
Volimteers, March 13, 1865, "for gallant and meritorious 
service durmg the war." 



'■o 



From Denver (Col.) Republican, June 27, 1898: 

"Mrs. Elizabeth Ballard Thompson, president of the 
Ladies' Literary Club of Grand Rapids, .Mich., is a daugh- 
ter of Rev. James Ballard, a JMichigan pioneer from Massa- 
chusetts, and foimder of the First Congregational Church 
of Grand Rapids. She was graduated from Rockford 
College, Rockford, 111. in 1861, taught for one year m the 
Grand Rapids public schools, and was married to Col. 
H. E. Thompson, a law3^er, of Grand Rapids. 

She is the mother of the late lamented Guy Van Gorder 
Thompson of Yale and the University of Colorado; of 
Mrs. Campbell, wife of Prof. William Wallace Campbell, 
astronomer at the Lick Observatory; and of Schuyler 
Thompson, a yoimg business man of Grand Rapids. 

Early in the '70's the Ladies' Literary Club of Grand 
Rapids was organized, of which Mrs. Thompson was a 
charter member. She has served it in the capacity of 
recording secretary, corresponding secretary and presi- 
dent, and it was largely through her influence that the 
Club identified itself with the general, state and city federa- 
tions. 

^Irs. Thompson is chairman of the Programme committee 
for the Michigan State Federation of Clubs and is candi- 
date for president of the City Federation. In the General 
Federation she has been chairman and member of two 
of the most important committees — Reciprocity and In- 
struction. She is now serving on the latter with Mrs. 
Croly and Mrs. Alice Ives Breed. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 363 

The family resided for a short time in Boulder, Colo., 
where Mrs. Thompson was one of the organizers of the 
Boulder Fortnightly and its first president." 

Children, born at Grand Rapids, Mich: 

1757. i. GUY v., born Feb. 13, 1865; died at Boulder, Col., Oct. 

2, 1897. 

1758. ii. STEPHEN ELMER, born Dec. 4, 1866; died May 8, 1867. 

1759. iii. ELIZABETH B., born June 24. 1868; married Dec. 28, 

1892, Wallace Campbell; they have one child; their ad- 
dress is Lick Observatory, Mt. Hamilton, Cal. 

1760. iv. SCHUYLER, born Feb. 14, 1877. 

1168. MARGARETTE LUCRETIA BALLARD" (Emeline Hins- 
dilP Stephen^ Joseph^ Joseph^ Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^), 
daughter of Reverend James Ballard and Emeline 
Hinsdill, his wife, born at Grand Rapids, Mich., July 2, 
1847, married there, October 19, 1869, Major Malcolm 
M. Moore. He was Second Lieutenant, 6th Michigan 
Cavalry, March 16, 1863; taken prisoner at Charleston, 
Va., October 18, 1863; escaped April 1, 1865; First Lieu- 
tenant May 23, 1865; Brevet-Major U. S. Volunteers, 
March 13, 1865; mustered out "for gallant and merito- 
rious service during the war." 

Children, born at Grand Rapids, Mich. : 

1761. i. MARGARET L., born Aug. 15, 1870; married Mar. 3, 

1892, Nathan D. Corbin; they have two children; re- 
side at Ann Arbor, Mich. 

1762. ii. CALLIE FREDERICA, born Nov. 17, 1878. 

1763. iii. NELLIE L., bom Mar. 5, 1881. 

1764. iv. MAURICE. 

1765. V. JAMES BALLARD. 

1176. FRANK HENRY SEYMOURS (Hannah Jeannette Hins- 
dill ' Stephen*" Joseph^ Joseph^ Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert'), son 
of Honorable Henry Seymour and Hannah Jeannette Hins- 
dill, his wife, born at Grand Rapids, Mich., October 25, 
1845, died at Bakersfield, Cal., June 30, 1895. He mar- 
ried at Detroit, Mich., May 30, 1872, Nellie F. Thomas, 
who was born in Lansing, Mich., Jime 23, 1851. 

Child: 

1766. i. ANNIE JEANNETTE, bom at Grand Rapids, Mich., 
: Feb. 25, 1873; lives at Washington, D. C. 



364 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

1 177. I\IARY JEANNETTE SEY^IOUR* (Hannah Jeannette Hins- 

dill' Stephen' Joseph' Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas* Robert'), 
daughter of Honorable Henry Seymour and Hannah Jean- 
nette Hinsdill, his wife, born at Paris, Mich., June 4, 
1848, died at Cascade, Mich., October 21, 1888. She mar- 
ried, November 17, 1869, Horace Gaylord Holt, who 
was born at Norway, N. Y., November 15, 1840. 

Children, residence, Grand Rapids, Mich.: 

1767. i. ANGIE, born at Paris, Mich., Sept. 7, 1871; died Oct. 

23, 1875. 

1768. ii. HENRY SEYMOUR, bora Jan. 28, 1872; died Aug. 19, 

1872. 

1769. iii. ALICE ANGIE, bom at Cascade, Mich., Mar. 23, 1876. 

1770. iv. BESSIE LOUISE, bom at Cascade, Feb. 18, 1878. 

1771. V. JE.ANNETTE HINSDILL, bom at Cascade, Apr. 19, 

1880. 

1772. vi. CAROL, bom at Cascade, Nov. 7, 1882. 

1773. vii. MARION, bom at Cascade, July 19, 1885. 

1178. GLENN EDGERTON SEYMOURS (Hannah Jeannette 

Hinsdill' Stephen" Joseph* Joseph* Isaac^' Barnabas' Rob- 
ert'), son of Honorable Henry Seymour and Hannah Jean- 
nette Hinsdill, his wife, born at Paris, Mich., August 1, 
1850, married, first, at Cleveland, O., August 11, 1874, 
Elizabeth M. Martin, who was born at Grand Rapids, 
Mich., February 15, 1854, and died November 21, 1879. 
He married, second, at Lansing, Mich., December 1, 
1881, MiLA Camp, who was born May 10, 1853. They 
reside at Kansas City, Mo. 

Children, born at Grand Rapids, Mich.: 

1774. i. FRANK HOWARD, bom Sept. 26, 1882. 

1775. ii. KATHERINE, bom Jan. 27, 1886. 

1776. iii. LOUISE, bom Dec. 2, 1889. 

1179. GEORGE HINSDILL SEYMOUR" (Hannah Jeamiette 

Hinsdill' Stephen' Joseph' Joseph^ Isaac" Barnabas^ Rob- 
ert'), son of Honorable Henry Seymour and Hannah Jean- 
nette Hinsdill, his wife, born at Paris, Mich., May 4, 1853, 
married at Lansing, Mich., October 19, 1876, Alice Por- 
ter, who was born at Kalamazoo, Mich., October 3, 1853. 

Children, born at Grand Rapids, Mich.: 

1777. i. ALICE KATHLEEN, bom Aug. 10, 1878. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 365 

1778. ii. NELLIE, bom Mar. 30, 1882; died at Grand Rapids, 

Dec. 13, 1886. 

1180. LUCRETIA HUBBELL SEYMOURS (Hannah Jeannette 

Hinsdill' Stephen" Joseph^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Rob- 
ertO, daughter of Honorable Henry Seymour and Han- 
nah Jeannette Hinsdill, his wife, born at Paris, Mich., 
October 13, 1856, married, May 19, 1880, Doctor Ran- 
som Humphrey Stevens, who was born at Montpelier, 
Vt., January 18, 1853. They reside at Bakersfield, Cal. 

Child: 

1779. i. CARL SEYMOUR, bom at Grand Rapids, Mich., June 

19, 1881; resides at Bakersfield, Cal. 

1181. CHARLES KI:NDALL SEYMOURS (Hannah Jeannette 

HinsdilP Stephen* Joseph^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Rob- 
ertO, son of Honorable Henry Seymour and Hannah Jean- 
nette Hinsdill, his wife, born at Paris, Mich., December 
24, 1858, married January 4, 1883, Anna Maria Rich, 
who was born August 1, 1861, and died November 19, 
1893. They reside at Grand Rapids, Mich. 

Children : 

1780. i. MILLARD RICH, bom at Grand Rapids, Mich., Nov. 2, 

1883. 

1781. ii. CHARLOTTE EMMA, bom July 11, 1889. 

1182. HENRY SEYMOUR, JR.« (Hannah Jeannette HinsdUP 

Stephen* Joseph^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^, son 
of Honorable Henry Seymour and Haimah Jeannette Hins- 
dill, his wife, born at Paris, Mich., May 16, 1861, married 
at Willow Springs, Mo., January 26, 1892, Sally Mabel 
Randall, who was born at Camden, Tenn., in 1870. They 
reside at Philadelphia, Pa. 

Child: 

1782. i. MILDRED, bom at Willow Springs, Mo., May 5, 1893. 

1183. JEANNETTE HINSDILL SEYMOURS (Hannah Jean- 

nette HinsdilP Stephen* Joseph^ Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas' 
Roberto, daughter of Honorable Henry Seymour and 
Hannah Jeannette Hinsdill, his wife, born at Grand Rap- 
ids, Mich., February 28, 1863, married, January 17, 1884, 



366 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Walter Millard Palmer, who was born in Grand Rap- 
ids, July 9, 186L They reside at Grand Rapids, Mich. 

Children, born at Grand Rapids, Mich. : 

1783. i. MARGARET HINSDILL, bom Dec. 21, 1884. 

1784. ii. WALTER SEYMOUR, bom June 24, 1886. 

1785. iii. MARY LUCRETIA, bom Aug. 20, 1889. 

1786. iv. CHARLES FORREST, bom Dec. 29, 1892. 

1185. HIRMI HINSDILL COMBES' (Geraldine Hutchinson 

Hinsdale' Hiram' Joseph^ Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas' Rob- 
ert'), son of Sylvester Combes and Geraldine Hutchinson 
Hinsdale, his wife, born at Talmage, Ottawa County, Mich., 
September 15, 1850, married, first, January 8, 1880, Dora 
G. Cunningham, of Lansing, Mich., from whom he was 
divorced. He married, second, December 10, 1896 Bea- 
trice Palmer of Grand Rapids, Mich., where he now 
resides. 

1186. LEWIS DUDLEY COMBES ' (Geraldine Hutchinson Hins- 

dale' Hiram® Joseph" Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas' Robert'), 
son of Sylvester Combes and Geraldine Hutchinson Hins- 
dale, his wife, born at Talmage, Ottawa County, Mich., 
July 23, 1855, married, June 4, 1893, Mary Teresa Hedges 
of Lamont, Mich. He lives at Grand Rapids, Mich. 

1190. COLONEL CHARLES WALBRIDGE CALKINS « (Mary 
Ann Hinsdale' Hiram* Joseph" Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas' 
Robert'), son of Charles Philo Calkins and Mary Ami Hins- 
dale, his wife, born at Grand Rapids, Mich., June 19, 1842, 
married at Nashville, Tenn,, September 21, 1869, Mary 
L. ScovEL. He enlisted in the Union Army September 
26, 1861 ; was Sergeant-Ma j or 1st Engineering and Me- 
chanical Corps; Second Lieutenant, July 30, 1862; First 
Lieutenant, January 1, 1864; mustered out October 26, 
1864, and honorably discharged. He lives at Grand Rap- 
ids, Mich., and is a lawyer by profession. 

Children : 

1787. i. ANNA M., bom at Kalamazoo, Mich., Feb. 14, 1871. 

1788. ii. EFFIE LOUISE, bom Nov. 12, 1873; married William 

Henry Rea. 

1789. iii. CHARLOTTE W., bom at Grand Rapids, Mich., May 30, 

1887. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 367 

1191. CLARA L. CALKINS « (Mary Ann Hinsdale^ Hiram" Joseph* 
Joseph^ Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter of Charles 
Philo Calkins and Mary Ann Hinsdale, his wife, born at 
Grand Rapids, Mich., February 24, 1844, married June 
13, 1867, Colonel Joseph C. Herkner of Grand Rapids. 
He enlisted in the Union Army; was 1st Lieutenant of 1st 
Engineer and Mechanical Corps, September 12, 1861; Cap- 
tain, January 1, 1864; mustered out September 22, 1865, 
and honorably discharged. He is a merchant jeweler in 
Grand Rapids. She died at Grand Rapids, Mich., Decem- 
ber 18, 1905. 

Children, born at Grand Rapids, ]\Iich.: 

1790. i. KATRINA, born May 30, 1868; died at Grand Rapids, 

Feb. 9, 1869. 

1791. ii. JOSEPH P., bom July 7, 1870; died at Grand Rapids, 

Jan. 18, 1874. 

1792. iii. ELIZABETH, born Aug. 8, 1872; living in 1904; un- 

married. 

1194. WILLIAM H. CALKINS^ (Mary Ann Hinsdale' Hiram" 
Joseph* Joseph^ Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Charles 
Philo Calkins and Mary Ann Hinsdale, his wife, born at 
Grand Rapids, Mich., September 10, 1848, married, first, 
at St. Clair, Mich., December 5, 1878, Ella Canan, of St. 
Clair, who died at Osceola, Neb., June 5, 1887. He mar- 
ried, second, at Grand Rapids, October 26, 1893, Lillie 
Canan, sister of his first wife. They live at Grand Rapids. 

Children, born at Grand Rapids, Mich. : 

By his first wife, Ella Canan. 

1793. i. MARJORY, born Jan. 18, 1880. 

1794. ii. JOHN C, born Apr. 21, 1883. 

1795. iii. SARAH, born Aug. 24, 1884; died at Osceola, Neb., Jan. 

20, 1887. 

By his second wife, Lillie Canan. 

1796. iv. RICHARD, born Aug. 12, 1894. 

1196. CORA CALKINS « (Mary Aim Hinsdale' Hu-am" Joseph" 
Joseph^ Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert'), daughter of Charles 
Philo Calkins and Mary Ann Hinsdale, his wife, born at 
Grand Rapids, Mich., October 18, 1861, was married at 
Grand Rapids, by Bishop GiUespie of the Episcopahan 



368 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Church, October 5, 1886, to J. Wilfred Thompson of De- 
troit, Mich. They Hve in Detroit. 

Child: 

1797. i. WILFRED S., bom at Detroit, Mich., May 15, 1887. 

1197. GEORGE JONES CALKINS ' (Mary Ann Hinsdale^ Hiram" 

Joseph^ Joseph^ Isaac' Barnabas^ R-obert'), son of Charles 
Philo Calkins and Mary Ann Hinsdale, his wife, born at 
Grand Rapids, Mich., January 17, 1864, died January 13, 
1906, married, first, at Caledonia, Mich., February 23, 
1890, Adah M. Kinsey, who died at Grand Rapids, July 
6, 1894. He married, second, August 25, 1897, Amy Nor- 
ton, born at Vicksburg, Mich., July 1, 1867. He lived 
at Grand Rapids, Mich., and was a most worthy man, a 
skillful jeweler, and was well known and liked in his na- 
tive city, where he Uved and died. 
Children, born at Grand Rapids, Mich.: 

By his first wife, Ad.ui M. Kinsey. 

1798. i. FORREST D., bom Nov. 28, 1890; died at Grand Rapids, 

July 23, 1891. 

1799. ii. GENEVIEVE A„ bom May 3, 1892. 

1198. HENRY KERR HINSDALE « (Henry Walbridge' Hiram' 

Joseph^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert*), son of Henry 
Walbridge Hinsdale and P^liza Jane Chatfield, his wife, 
born at Chicago, 111., April 29, 1853, married at Grand 
Rapids, Mich., October 19, 1876, Emma Burgard. They 
live at Evanston, 111. 

Children, now hving at Evanston, 111.: 

1800. i. GRACE, born Oct. 1, 1877. 

1801. ii. HELEN, bom Aug. 3, 1879. 

1202. CHARLOTTE LOUISE HINSDALE « (Henry Walbridge^ 
Hiram" Joseph^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert'), daugh- 
ter of Henry Walbridge Hinsdale and Eliza Jane Chatfield, 
his wife, born at Chicago, 111., March 12, 1865, was mar- 
ried at St. Mark's Episcopal Chiu-ch, Evanstou, 111., No- 
vember 1, 1892, by Rev. Ai-thur Wilde Little, rector of that 
church, to Alvin Bliss Moseley of Grand Rapids, Mich., 
who was born in 1861, and died at San Antonio, Tex., 
December 22, 1893. He w^as the youngest member of 
the firm of ]\Ioseley Bros,, of Grand Rapids, and was well 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 369 

known in that city, where he had resided all his Ufe. He 
was a leader among the young people of Park Congre- 
gational Church. 

Child: 

1802. i. ALICE BLISS, born June 20, 1894. 

1206. HENRY SANFORD SHATTUCK« (Ellen Edgerton Hins- 
dale^ Hiram^ Joseph^ Joseph^ Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert'), 
son of Frank Shattuck and Ellen Edgerton Hinsdale, his 
wife, born at Plymouth, Mich., October 4, 1870, married, 
September 18, 1895, Elinor Birch. 

Child: 

1803. 1. ROBERT SANFORD, bom Dec. 18, 1898. 

1215. ELLEN H. GALUSHA^ (Orson Bingham Galusha' Electa 

Hinsdale" Joseph^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert'), 
daughter of Orson Bingham Galusha and Mary Jane Hins- 
dale, his wife, born at Lisbon, 111.. October 24, 1849, mar- 
ried at Morris, 111., July 19, 1870, William Hawley Smith 
of Chicago, 111., who was born at Sunderland, Mass., Octo- 
ber 7, 1845. He is a lectiu-er and author. 

Children : 

1804. i. ARTHUR GALUSHA, born at Morris, lU., Dec. 1, 1870. 

1805. ii. LESLIE HAWLEY, bom at Normal, 111., Jan. 19, 1874. 

1216. HARVEY COLEMAN BOARDMAN« (Milton Harvey 

Boardman^ Elisha Boardman' Lydia Hinsdale^ Joseph* 
Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert'), son of Milton Harvey Board- 
man and Sophia Haskins, his wife, born at Morristown, 
Vt., March 11, 1824, married, September 30, 1852, Laura 
M. Spaulding. They lived at Morristown. 

Children : 

1806. i. MARIE SOPHIE. 

1807. ii. MARIA S., bom Apr. 13, 1856; married Sept. 30, 1882, 

Emest C. Tinker. 

1808. ii. MILTON HARVEY, bom Mar. 6, 1861. 

1218. AUGUSTA BOARDMAN* (Alfred C. Boardman' EUsha 
Boardman' Lydia Hinsdale* Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ Rob- 
ert'), daughter of Alfred C. Boardman and Mary Holcomb, 
his wife, born at Morristown, Vt., in 1826, died at Water- 
bury, Vt., December 19, 1877. She married a Mr. Lease. 



370 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Children, born at Waterbiiry, Vt. : 

1809. i. EMILY, married William Clark. 

1810. ii. FREDERICK. 

1811. iii. HARRY. 

1220. OSCAR C. HAZEN « (Marcia Pratt Boardman' Elisha Board- 

maii^ Lydia Hinsdale' Joseph^ Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert'), 
son of Horace Hazen and Marcia Pratt Boardman, his 
wife, born at Morristown, Vt., November 29, 1834, mar- 
ried January 1, 18G0, Mary Niles. 

Children, born at Morristown, Vt.: 

1812. i. BURTON J., born Nov. 18, 1863. 

1813. ii. NETTIE, born May 28, 1868; married Nov. 27, 1886, 

John Thornton. 

1814. iii. MAYNARD, born July 20, 1872. 

1815. iv. CLARENCE, born Feb. 5, 1876. 

1221. CORNELIA M. BOARDMAN « (Almond Boardman' Ozias 

Boardman' Lydia Hinsdale* Joseph^ Isaac' Barnabas* Rob- 
ert'), daughter of Honorable Almond Boardman and 
Jemima Goodale, his wife, born at Hyde Park, Vt., July 
8, 1831, died March 22, 1S96. She married. March 27, 
1853, Honorable Leander S. Small of MorristowTi, Vt. 
They settled at Hyde Park immediately after their mar- 
riage. Mr. Small was bred a lawyer, and was Clerk and 
Judge of Lamville County Coiu-t many years. 

Child: 

1816. i. Infant son, bom and died Aug. 21, 1856. 

1225. ELLEN CLEORA BOARDMAN' (Almond Boardman' 
Ozias Boardman* Lydia Hinsdale* Joseph"* Isaac' Barna- 
bas* Robert'), daughter of Honorable Almond Boardman 
and Jemima Goodale, his wife, born at Morristown, Vt., 
December 31, 1847; died at Hyde Park, Vt., October 7, 
1897. She married December 16, 1866, Albert Leigh 
Notes of Hyde Park, who died at Pasadena, Cal., Feb- 
ruary 16, 1887. He was engaged in the banking business 
from the time he was eighteen j^ears old, and for nearly 
twenty-five years had almost the entire charge of the 
First National Bank at Hyde Park. They resided at 
Hyde Park from the time of their marriage. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 371 

Children : 

1817. i. HARRY ALBERT, born at Hyde Park, Vt., June 4, 

1871; graduated from the University of Vermont in the 
class of 1893; was a student in the New York Law 
School, 1896-1897; resides at Hyde Park, Vt. 

1818. ii. Infant son, bom and died Oct. 15, 1886. 

1226. CAROLUS H. DA^aS « (Lorinda Boardman^ Ozias Board- 

man* Lydia Hinsdale^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert'), 
son of Harry Davis and Lorinda Boardman, his wife, 
born March 20, 1835, married October 16, 1867, Lucretia 
Bayliss of Rock Grove, 111. He served through the War 
of the Rebellion. They live at Osage, Mitchell County, 
Iowa. 

Children: 

1819. i. HARRY, bom Aug. 3, 1868. 

1820. ii. GERTIE, bom Sept. 9, 1870; married Feb. 20, 1880, 

Warren H. Angell. 

1227. JULIAN H. DAVIS « (Lorinda Boardman^ Ozias Board- 

man' Lydia Hinsdale^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^, 
son of Harry Davis and Lorinda Boardman, his wife, born 
February 20, 1837, married, in 1875, a Miss Benton of 
Anamosa, la. He is a business man, and resides at 
Ames, Story Coimty, Iowa. 

Children: 

1821. i. BENTON, bom in 1876. 

1822. ii. ALGA, bom in 1878. 

1232. MORILLO A. BOARDMAN » (Elisha Boardman^ Ozias 
Boardman' Lydia Hinsdale^ Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ 
Roberto, son of Elisha Boardman and Mary S. Bingham, 
his wife, born at North Hyde Park, Vt., December 13, 
1838, married May 25, 1869, Sarah E. Seymour of Hart- 
ford , Conn. He was associated with his father in the whole- 
sale and retail business in Milwaukee, Wis., under the firm 
name of E. Boardman & Son. He continued the business 
after his father's death. 

Children, born at Milwaukee, Wis.: 

1823. i. HARRY BINGHAM, bom May 20, 1870; graduated from 

the University of Wisconsin in 1893. 



372 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

1824. ii. FRANK SEYMOUR, bom May 20, 1870; engaged with 

his twin brother in the Photo-Engraving business in 
Milwaukee. 

1825. iii. HOWARD OILMAN, bom July 7, 1876. 

1234. HONORABLE HOMER CULLEN BOARDMAN" (Nor- 

man Boardman' Ozias Boardman* Lydia Hinsdale^ Joseph* 
Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Honorable Norman 
Boardman and his second wife, Lois B. Knight, born at 
Troy, Vt.. February 22, 1849, married at Lyons, la., 
June 24, 1874, Emma F. Jacobson. He and his brother, 
WilHam K. Boardman, are doing an extensive business 
as merchants at Nevada, la., under the firm name of 
Boardman Bros. He was State Senator in the Iowa Leg- 
islature in 1904. 

Childi'en, born at Lyons, Iowa. : 

1826. i. WILLIAM CHARLES, bom Aug. 28, 1876. 

1827. ii. HOMER N., bom Dec. 17, 1878. 

1235. HONORABLE WILLIAM KNIGHT BOARDMAN « (Nor- 

man Boardman^ Ozias Boardman* Lydia Hinsdale' Joseph* 
Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Honorable Norman 
Boardman and his second wife, Lois B. Knight, born at 
Troy, Vt., June 22, 1852, married Addie Henriquesen 
of Lyons, la. He is associated with his brother. Homer 
C. Boardman, in mercantile business at Nevada, la. For 
four years he was State Dairy Commissioner of Iowa, his 
term expiring May 1, 1898. Entering upon his duties by 
appointment of Governor Jackson, his service was so 
notably successful, that Governor Drake reappomted him 
in deference to the earnestly expressed wishes of the dairy 
people and in obvious furtherance of the best interests 
of the state. Under his administration, his department 
of the state government has been of markedly increasing 
value to the pubUc ; and both at home and abroad the 
dairy interest of Iowa has had a capable and acceptable 
representative. The Governor-elect made tender of reap- 
pointment both by letter and in person. Mr. Boardman, 
however, though enjoying the duties and responsibilities 
of his office, was wearied of its burdens, and elected at the 
expiration of his term to become a private citizen of Ne- 
vada. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 373 

Children : 

1828. i. FRANK MEAD, born May 11, 1878. 

1829. ii. LOIS KNIGHT, bom Apr. 18, 1887. 

1236. DOCTOR CHARLES DAVIS BOARDMAN « (Norman 

Boardman' Ozias Boardman" Lydia Hinsdale* Joseph* 
Isaae^ Barnabas^ Robert'), son of Honorable Norman 
Boardman and his second wife, Lois B. Knight, born at 
Potsdam, N. Y., May 6, 1854, married October 17, 1877, 
Ida May Ross. He and his wife were both graduated at 
Ames College, Iowa., in 1876 and 1877 respectively. He 
was trained as a physician, but does not practice except 
as a druggist. He is engaged in business at Des Moines, 
Iowa. 

Children: 

1830. i. NORMAN ROSS, bom at MonticeUo, la., Nov. 13, 1878; 

died June 19, 1894, under peculiarly sad circumstances; 
while bathing with a companion in the Des Moines 
river, by the accidental overturning of their boat, they 
fell into a hole beyond their depth; another boy, who 
had just left the water swam to their help and would 
have assisted Ross, who was nearest him, but he, seeing 
his younger and weaker friend struggling for life, called 
out that he should be helped first; on returning for the 
rescue of Ross he was found to have sunk for the last 
time. He was an open hearted boy, generous to a fault, 
and was one of the brightest students in the school. 

1831. ii. CHARLES KNIGHT, bom Jan. 26, 1881. 

1832. iii. GLEN DAVIS, bom Feb. 29, 1884. 

1833. iv. HARRY WHEELER, bom September, 1891. 

1237. BERTRAND D. MERRIAM* (Fideha Boardman' Ozias 

Boardman" Lydia Hinsdale* Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ 
Roberto, son of Curtis N. Merriam and Fidelia Boardman, 
his wife, born December 7, 1846, married March 15, 1871, 
Celia Cole of Brownington, Vt. He is a farmer at Vilas, 
So. Dak. 

Children: 

1834. i. MERTON E., bom June 20, 1874. 

1835. ii. ERNEST V., bom June 10, 1877. 

1836. iii. ALMOND B., bom Aug. 15, 1879. 

1837. iv. NORMAN P., bom May 3, 1882. 

1838. V. EDITH MABEL, bom Nov. 24, 1884. 

1839. vi. LILLIAN MAY, bom Apr. 25, 1888. 



374 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

1238. WILLIAM W. MERRIAM' (Fidelia Boardman' Ozias 

Boardman' Lydia Hinsdale" Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas' 
Robert^, son of Curtis N. j\Ierriam and Fidelia Boardman, 
his wife, born June 13, 1852, married July 16, 1875, Sarah 
Lambert. He is a farmer at Vilas, So. Dak. 

Children: 

1840. i. MILDRED B., bom June 26, 1876. 

1841. ii. AVERY A., bom Jan. 20, 1888. 

1239. NORMAN C. MERRIAM « (Fidelia Boardman' Ozias Board- 

man' Lydia Hinsdale* Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas' Robert*), 
son of Curtis N. Merriam and Fidelia Boardman, his wife, 
born November 12, 1860, married February 25, 1885, 
liYDiA Farrington. He is a farmer at Madison, "Wis. 

Child: 

1842. i. ALMA FIDELL\, bom Nov. 2, 1886. 

1241. WILLIAM EARL' (Lydia Boardman^ William Boardman* 

Lydia Hinsdale* Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert'), son 
of Hiram Earl and Lydia Boardman, his wife, born at 
Morristown, Vt., in 1825, married Emma Bacon of Ver- 
shire, Vt. He was living in Michigan in 1897. 

Children : 

1843. i. GEORGE. 

1844. ii. ADDIE. 

1845. ill. CLARENCE. 

1846. iv. BERTIE. 

1847. V. CHARLES. 

1848. vi. HARRY. 

1242. MARY EARL" (Lydia Boardman' William Boardman' 

Lydifi Hinsdale* Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas' Robert'), daugh- 
ter of Hiram Earl and L^^dia Boardman, his wife, born at 
Morristown, Vt., December 10, 1828, married August 26, 
1851, Seymour Harris of Stowe, Vt. They were living 
at Morristown, Vt., in 1897. 

Children : 

1849. i. ELLA MAY, bom July 10, 1852; married George P.Hardy. 

1850. ii. ELMER J., born June 29, 1854; died July, 1854. 

1851. iii. ELMER E., born Dec. 11, 1856; married Apr. 4, 1879, 

Anna Woodworth of Morristown Vt. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 375 

1852. iv. CARROL E., born Apr, 20, 1857; married Mary Gal- 
britt. 

1244. LUCINDA EARL' (Lydia Boardman^ William Boardman" 

Lydia Hinsdale^ Joseph^ Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert'), daugh- 
ter of Hiram Earl and Lydia Boardman, his wife, born 
at Morristown, Vt., March 22, 1834, married December 9, 

1852. JosiAH A. George of Morrisville, Vt. 

Children : 

1853. i. NETTIE B., bom Mar. 26, 1855; married June 7, 1882, 

Harvey M. Rich of Morrisville, Vt. 

1854. ii. GRACE G., bom Sept. 22, 1863; married Dec. 20, 1882, 

Walter F. Churchill of Stowe, Vt. 

1245. OLIVE A. EARL " (Lydia Boardman' William Boardman" 

Lydia Hinsdale^ Joseph^ Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert') , daugh- 
ter of Hiram Earl and Lydia Boardman, his wife, born 
at Morristown, Vt., March 22, 1842, married July 21, 
1867, Edwin D. Gilbert of Morristown, Vt. 

Child: 

1855. 1. ALICE MAY. 

1246. HIRAM A. EARL « (Lydia Boardman' William Boardman" 

Lydia Hinsdale" Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert'), son 
of Hiram Earl and Lydia Boardman, his wife, born at 
Morristown, Vt., August 16, 1844, married April, 1866, 
Emma Hutchins of Wolcott, Vt. They live in Chicago, 
111. 

Child: 

1856. i. BERTHA. 

1247. MARION BARTLETT « (Lucy Boardman' WUliam Board- 

man" Lydia Hinsdale" Joseph* Isaac" Barnabas^ Robert'), 
daughter of Charles S. Bartlett and his first wife, Lucy 
Boardman, died April, 1878. She married Samuel Kim- 
ball of Morristown, Vt. 

Children: 

1857. i. LILLIE. 

1858. ii. CORA. 

1859. iii. MATTIE, adopted by Otis Griswold of Morristown, Vt. 



376 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

1248. ARABELI;A E. BOARDMAN « (Ralph Boardman' William 

Boardman' Lydia Hinsdale^ Joseph^ Isaac^ Barnabas' Rob- 
ert^), daughter of Ralph Boai'dman and Emily Bartlett. 
his wife, born at Morristown, Vt., March 7, 1845, married 
February 24, 1864, Harry S. Smith of Morristown. 

Children: 

1860. i GLYNDON H., bom June 9, 1866. 

1861. ii. CLARENCE S., bom Aug. 7, 1875. 

1862. iii. CARROLL E., bom Aug. 9, 1879. 

1249. HENRY BOARDMAN « (Ralph Boardman' William Board- 

man^ Lydia Hinsdale^ Joseph^ Isaac^ Barnabas' Robert'), 
son of Ralph Boardman and Emily Bartlett, his wife, 
born at Morristown, Vt.; married. 

Child: 

1863. i. ERROL, of Manchester, N. H. 

1251. CORNELIUS STANDISH« (Flavilla Boardman' William 
Boardman" Lydia Hinsdale^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas' R.ob- 
ert'), son of William W. Standish and Fla villa Boardman, 
his wife, born at Springfield, Mass., May 20, 1843, died 
July 21, 1884. He married first, Nellie Halford of 
Tewksbury, England; second, Lillian M. Wood; and 
third, Maradia Sumner of Stamford, Conn. 

Children: 

By his first wife, Nellie Halford. 

1864. i. NELLIE, died in infancy. 

By his second wife, Lilllvn M. Wood. 

1865. ii. ARTHUR. 

1866. iii. FRANK R. 

1867. iv. LILLIAN MAY. 

1253. JOSEPHINE STANDISH » CFlavilla Boardman^ William 
Boardman' Lydia Hinsdale^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas' Rob- 
ert^), daughter of WiUiam H. Standish and Fla villa 
Boardman, his wife, born at Springfiekl, Mass., July 24, 
1848, married September 12, 1864, Levi L. King. 

Children : 

1868. i. MINNIE, bom Nov. 27, 1865; married Jan. 12, 1887, 

Frank H. Collins of Springfield, Mass. 

1869. ii. CHARLES, bom September, 1869; married December, 

1887, Lizzie Finerty of Palmer, Mass. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 377 

1254. LUCINDA C. BOARDMAN « (Charles Wright Boardman^ 

WiUiam Boardman" Ijydia Hinsdale* Joseph^ Isaac' Bar- 
nabas^ Robert*), daughter of Charles Wright Boardman 
and Hulda Cole, his wife, born at Morristown, Vt., 
August 20, 1851, married July, 1871, Willis Daniels of 
Morristown. 

Child: 

1870. i. LEON, born Nov. 6, 1874. 

1255. ALBERT WILLIAM BOARDMAN ' (Charles Wright Board- 

man^ William Boardman* Lydia Hinsdale* Joseph* Isaac' 
Barnabas^ Robert'), son of Charles Wright Boardman and 
Hulda Cole, his wife, born at Morristown, Vt., Jime 12, 
1853, married at Wolcott, Vt., February 19, 1879, Emma 
Leora Cleveland, daughter of Enoch James Cleveland. 
They lived at Wolcott, Vt. 

Children : 

1871. i. MABEL EMMA, bom June 22, 1880. 

1872. ii. MAUD J., born Apr. 16, 1882. 

1873. iii. CHARLES W., bom Dec. 19, 1885. 

1 256. EMILY H. BOARDMAN « (Charles Wright Boardman' Wil- 

liam Boardman* Ijydia Hinsdale* Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ 
Ptobert'), daughter of Charles Wright Boardman and Hulda 
Cole, his wife, born at Morristown, Vt., September 7, 1855. 
married in 1878, George Dougherty of Morristown. 

Children, born at Morristown, Vt.: 

1874. i. CORNELIUS, born Oct. 24, 1878. 

1875. ii. ARTHUR P., bom Aug. 24, 1880. 

1876. iii. ANNA B., bom June 17, 1882. 

1262. CALVIN BOARDMAN' (WiUiam Asa Boardman' Alfred 
Boardman* Lydia Hinsdale' Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ 
Roberto, son of Honorable William Asa Boardman and 
Emma Fish, his wife, born February 23, 1842, married 
September, 1868, Julia Miller. They resided in Chicago. 

Children; 

1877. i. LILLIAN MAY, born Sept. 5, 1871. 

1878. ii. JULIA PEARL, bom Jan. 1, 1874. 

1879. iii. MYRTLE, bom July 29, 1876. 



378 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

1263. CLARA M. BOARDMAN ' (William Asa Boardman' Alfred 

Boardman' Lydia Hinsdale^ Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ Rob- 
ert*), daughter of Honorable William Asa Boardman and 
Emma Fish, his wife, born September 20, 1843, married 
William B. Keese of Chicago, 111. 

Children: 

1880. i. WILLIAM ASA, born Oct. 6, 1870. 

1881. ii. DAVID B., born July 27, 1872; died July, 1883. 

1882. iii. ROY, born Sept. 3, 1876. 

1264. LILLY C. BOARDMAN « (William Asa Boardman^ Alfred 

Boardman^ I^ydia Hinsdale^ Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ Rob- 
ert'), daughter of Honorable William Asa Boardman and 
Emma Fish, his wife, born May 23, 1850, married Decem- 
ber, 1866, Byron Van Dyke of Chicago, 111. 

Children: 

1883. i. ALFRED B., born July 13, 1873. 

1884. ii. CHARLES B., born June 25, 1875. 

1885. iii. EMMA LOUISE, born Mar. 7, 1878. 

1265. SABRINA DIANTHA WOOD' (Diantha S. Boardman' 

Alfred Boardman" Lydia Hinsdale^ Joseph* Isaac' Barna- 
bas^ Robert'), daughter of Willard Wood and Diantha 
S. Boardman, his wife, born at Morristown, Vt., Febru- 
ary 5, 1836, married September 14, 1865, Robert B. Mil- 
ler, of Crete, 111. He is a teacher, and the principal of a 
a school in Crete. 

Children : 

1886. i. FRANKLIN W., born Oct. 21, 1866. 

1887. ii. CHAUNCEY R., bom May 31, 1868. 

1888. iii. ESTHER D., born Dec. 19, 1869. 

1266. FIDELIA L. WOOD ' (Diantha S. Boardman' Alfred Board- 

man« Lydia Hinsdale ^ Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert^, 
daughter of Willard Wood and Diantha S. Boardman, his 
wife, born at Crete, 111., January 11, 1838, married Octo- 
ber 9, 1863, Daniel E. Hewes. He was a merchant for 
thirty years, but is now retu*ed and hves at Crete. 

Children : 

1889. i. MINNIE E., born July 10, 1863; married George F. Baker. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 379 

1890. ii. ALICE D., born Dec. 31, 1867. 

1891. iii. EVA LYDIA, born Jan. 26, 1877. 

1267. LYDIA M. WOOD « (Diantha S. Boardman' Alfred Board- 
man^ Lydia Hinsdale^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^, 
daughter of Willard Wood and Diantha S. Boardman, 
his wife, born at Crete, 111., March 11, 1839, married No- 
vember 5, 1860, Honorable Charles A. Hill, a promi- 
nent lawyer in Joliet, 111., and a member of Congress. 

Children : 

1892. i. CHARLES W., bom Aug. 25, 1861; died Apr. 4, 1879. 

1893. ii. STAFFORD B., born May 4, 1864; died Jan. 17, 1865. 

1894. iii. ALFRED N., bom Dec. 1, 1866. 

1895. iv. LOTTIE D., bom Jan. 16, 1869. 

1896. V. FREDERICK A., bom Sept. 10, 1872. 

1897. vi. IRWIN H., bom Feb. 19, 1875. 

1898. vii. FLORENCE M., bom May 31, 1877. 

1270. HONORABLE SELWYN WILLARD WOOD" (Diantha 

S. Boardman^ Alfred Boardman* Lydia Hinsdale^ Joseph* 
Isaac* Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Willard Wood and Dian- 
tha S. Boardman, his wife, born at Crete, 111., October 
12, 1844, married November 25, 1880, Mary Ellen 
Moore. He removed in 1868 to Nevada, and thence to 
Tombstone, Ariz. He has been Probate Judge and a mem- 
ber of the Territorial Council in Arizona. He hves at 
Fairbank, Arizona. 

Children : 

1899. i. HELEN, bom Aug. 23, 1881. 

1900. ii. HILDA, bom May 29, 1883. 

1901. iii. WINIFRED, bom Mar. 4, 1885. 

1902. iv. WILLARD SELWYN, bom Nov. 19, 1887. 

1271. IRWIN W. WOOD « (Diantha S. Boardman' Alfred Board- 

man« Lydia Hinsdale^ Joseph* Isaac* Barnabas^ Robert*), 
son of Willard Wood and Diantha S. Boardman, his wife, 
born March 4, 1846, married May 11, 1872, Alvira Hewes 
of Crete, 111. He is a successful hotel-keeper in Crete. 

Children : 

1903. i. MARY E., bom Mar. 6, 1872. 

1904. ii. MABEL, bom May 20, 1877; died Mar. 10, 1880. 

1905. iii. HELEN B., bom Nov. 19, 1887. 



380 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

1273. MARION M. WOOD » (Diantha S. Boardman' Alfred Board- 

man' Lydia Hinsdale' Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert^, 
daughter of Willard Wood and Diantha S. Boardman, 
his wife, born September 15, 1850, married November 
25, 1869, Albert H. Smith, a farmer in Crete, 111. 

Children : 

1906. i. ANNIE L., bom Mar. 11, 1871. 

1907. ii. WILLARD J., bom Nov. 10, 1873. 

1908. iii. FLORENCE E., bom Dec. 23, 1875. 

1909. iv. WESLEY A., bom May 18, 1884. 

1910. V. CLARK, bom May 18, 1884. 

1274. MORTON M. WOOD « (Diantha S. Boardman' Alfred Board- 

man' Lydia Hinsdale' Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert'), 
son of Willard Wood and Diantha S. Boardman, his wife, 
born July 5, 1851, married June 5, 1878, Jessie D. Wood 
of Chicago, 111. He is a skiUful telegraph operator in 
Chicago. 

Child: 

1911. i. EDITH, died. 

1275. MARY HINSDALE GRANDEY « (Truman Grandey' Jesse 

Grandey' Mary Hinsdale' Jo-eph* Isaac' Barnabas'' RobertO, 
daughter of Truman Grandey and Polly R. M>Tick, his wife, 
born December 29, 1824, married February 2, 1843, Zen as 
Alanson Curtis, who was born January 10, 1819. 

Children : 

1912. i. CHARLES SPERRY, bom Oct. 28, 1843; married Sept. 

5, 1867; died Jan. 28, 1873. 

1913. ii. WILLIAM H., bom July 8, 1845; died Dec, 3, 1845. 

1914. iii. EMILY CORNELIA, bom Nov. 16, 1846; married Silas 

Tappen. 

1915. iv. WILLIAM H., bom Sept. 13, 1848. 

1916. V. HELEN MAY, bom May 29, 1854; died Aug. 11, 1855. 

1917. vi. JESSIE FREMONT, bom July 2, 1861; married a Mr. 

Schenck. 

1276. MARIA LOUISA GRANDF^Y' (Truman Grandey » Jesse 

Grandey' Mary Hinsdale' Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas'" Rob- 
ert*), daughter of Truman Grandey and Polly R. Myrick, 
his wife, born March 17, 1827, married January 23, 1851, 
Loyal Kent. Thev were both of Panton, Yt. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 381 



Children : 



1918. i. TRUMAN G., bom Sept. 21, 1852; married. 

1919. ii. BURTON, bom Nov. 8, 1858; married. 

1920. iii. ROLLIN J., bom Oct. 1, 1866; married. 

1277. CORNELIA GRANDEY ' (Truman Grandey' Jesse Grandey' 

Mary Hinsdale* Joseph^ Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert'), daugh- 
ter of Truman Grandey and Polly R. Myrick, his wife, 
born March 7, 1829, married May 26, 1852, Enoch J. 
Kent. 

Children : 

1921. i. LYMAN G., born Dec. 2, 1853; married June 17, 1896, 

S. E. Ten Broeke. 

1922. ii. CYNTHIA E., bom Dec. 2, 1853; married A. 0. Newton. 

1923. iii. EMILY C, bom Oct. 23, 1857; married June 14, 1889, 

J. C. Norton. 

1924. iv. ELWYN, bom Mar. 27, 1861; married Emma Drew. 

1925. V. PRUDY E., born Sept. 19, 1868; married Nathaniel 

NeiU. 

1926. vi. BERTHA M., bom Nov. 6, 1872; married Sept. 24, 

1892, Loyal W. Spaulding. 

1278. JESSE LYMAN GRANDEY « (Truman Grandey' Jesse 

Grandey* Mary Hinsdale* Joseph^ Isaac^ Barnabas^ Rob- 
ertO, son of Truman Grandey and Polly R. Myrick, his 
wife, born April 25, 1831, died December 23, 1894. He 
married March 4, 1855, Adeline Kingsland. 

Children: 

1927. i. FRED S., bom Nov. 4, 1857; married a Miss Donnelly 

of Vergennes, Yt.; lives in Butte City, Mont.; no chil- 
dren. 

1928. ii. FLORA F., bom Aug. 28, 1864; married Sept. 24, 1892, 

Ward Spaulding; no children. 

1929. iii. CHARLES M., bom June 17, 1867; married Clara Co- 

bum, 

1280. HARRIET GRANDEY » (Iruman Grandey' Jesse Grandey* 
Mary Hmsdale'^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas* Pcobert^), daugh- 
ter of Truman Grandey and Polly R. M3T"ick, his wife, 
born July 11, 1837, married January 10, 1856, Josiah N. 
Stagg. 

Child: 

1930. i. ELBERT L., bom Aug. 24, 1861; married Ida May Nor- 

ton. 



382 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

1281 . WILLIAM MYRICK GRANDEY " (Truman Grandey' Jesse 

Grandey' Mary Hinsdale' Joseph* Isaac* Barnabas^ Rob- 
ert'), son of Truman Grandey and Polly R. Myrick, his 
wife, born at Bridgeport, Vt., November IG, 1839, mar- 
ried, first, November 21, 1860, Ellen J. Myrick, who 
was born at Bridgeport, July 22, 1837, and died Novem- 
ber 25, 1882. He married, second, October 6, 1891, Emma 
S. Rice, widow of a Mr. Moore, who was bom March 14, 
1842. 

Children, born at Bridgeport, Vt.: 

By his first wife, Ellen J. Myrick. 

1931. i. MINNIE A., born Jan. 11, 1865; married Henry K. Wil- 

liams. 

1932. ii. WILLNA M., bom June 27, 1869; married William L. 

Bacon. 

1933. iii. TRUMAN B., born Sept. 15, 1871; died Aug. 14, 1872. 

1934. iv. MARY G., bom June 22, 1873; died Aug. 15, 1875. 

1282. ELLEN GRANDEY « (Truman Grandey' Jesse Grandey' 

Mary Hmsdale' Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert'), daugh- 
ter of Truman Grandey and Polly R. iMyrick, his wife, 
born November 10, 1841, died January 21, 1894. She 
married November 9, 1859, William White. 

Children: 

1935. i. ELSIE M., born Jan. 23, 1863; married George W. Hatch. 

1936. ii. GEORGE N., bom Apr. 16, 1865; married Aglora A. 

Roberts. 

1937. iii. WALTER R., bom May 19, 1868; married Nov. 29, 

1893, Anna Gaines; no children. 

1938. iv. ANNA S., bom Feb. 15, 1870; married Albee Merrill. 

1939. v. MOLLIE G., bom Oct. 23, 1881. 

1283. CHARLES HENRY GRANDEY » (IVuman Grandey' Jesse 

Grandey' Mary Hindsale* Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Rob- 
ert'), f=on of Truman Grandey and Polly R. Myrick, his 
wife, born August 28, 1847, married October 29, 1868 
Lucy J. Fitch. 

Children : 

1940. i. EMMA ADELLE, bom June 12, 1871. 
1941 ii. RENA JULIA, bom Sept. 8, 1879. 

1942. iii. TRUMAN WILLIAM, bom Sept. 14. 1884. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 383 

1286. JANE ANN CON ANT « (Samantha Grandey' Jesse Grandey » 

Mary Hinsdale^ Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ RoV^ert^, daugh- 
ter of Clark Conant and Samantha Grandey, his wife, 
born at Peru or Birmingham, N. Y., April 16, 1836, died 
at Los Angeles, Cal., August 26, 1894. She married 
at Parma, Jackson Coimty, Mich., October 30 or 31, 1858, 
William H. Pope, who was born at MiddletowTi, Vt., 
December 21, 1835, and died at Hampton, Washington 
County, N. Y., April 8, 1894. 

Child: 

1943. i. JESSIE MAY, bom May 1, 1864; married Lockwood R. 

May. 

1287. WILLIAM M. CONANT « (Samantha Grandey' Jesse 

Grandey^ Mary Hinsdale* Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Rob- 
ert^, son of Clark Conant and Samantha Grandey, his wife, 
born at Port Henry, Essex Coimty, N. Y., September 25, 
1838, married at Parma, or Jackson, Jackson Coimty, 
Mich., March 7, 1867, Mary Rich.\rdson of Parma, Mich., 
who was born December 23, 1834. He was living at Parma 
m 1897. 

Children : 

1944. i. BLANCH, bom Aug. 15, 1867. 

1945. ii. MAUD, bom Jan. 28, 1872. 

1289. EMILY L. CONANT » (Samantha Grandey' Jesse Grandey^ 
Mary Hinsdale* Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert'), daugh- 
ter of Clark Conant and Samantha Grandey, his wife, 
born at Panton, Addison Coimty, Vt., April 5, 1845, mar- 
ried at Parma, Mich., November 24, 1867, John W. Gard- 
ner. 

Child: 

1946. i. IVY MAY, bom at Stockton, Cal., Aug. 5, 1876; un- 

married. 

1291. SARAH JANE MYRICK' (Anna Grandey' Jesse Grandey' 
Mary Hinsdale' Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert'), daugh- 
ter of Charles Myrick and Aima Grandey, his wife, born 
at Kane, Green County, 111., May 1, 1839; died of diph- 
theria at Coldwater, Mich., September 23, 1861. She 
married at Parma, Mich., in 1857 Eliot M. Ckippen. 



384 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

She moved from Illinois to Parma, Mich., with her par- 
ents shortly before her marriage. 

Child: 

1947. i. MARY EMILY, born at Cold water, Branch Co., Mich., 

Aug. 17, 1859; married Samuel M. Gillette. 

1294. ANNA L. BURWELL « (Achsah Grandey' Jesse Grandey* 
]\Iary Hmsdale^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert*), daugh- 
ter of Anthony Lee Burwell and Achsah Grandey, his wife, 
born atTanton, Vt., September 16, 1844, married at Parma, 
Mich., July 4, I860, James Henry King. She was liv- 
ing at Milbank, So. Dak., in 1897. 

Children, born at Parma. Mich.: 

1948. i. CHARLES LEE, bom Apr. 27, 1862; married Louisa M. 

Newhouse. 

1949. ii. NINA F., born Mar. 30, 1864; married Eugene H. Fargo. 
1950 iii. EDDIE T., born Jan. 17, 1869; married Myrtle Harvey. 

1298. JESSE GRANDEY CONVERSE « (Sarah A. Grandey' 
Jesse Grandey' Mary Hmsdale' Joseph' Isaac' Barnabas* 
Robert'), son of Jefferson Converse and Sarah A. Grandey, 
his wife, born at Panton, Vt., August 4, 1846, married 
January 30, 1868, Fanny Warren of Vergennes, Vt., 
who was born at Newport, Ky., April 12, 1841. He en- 
listed in Company K., 2nd Regiment of Vermont Volun- 
teers for three years or during the War, at the age of six- 
teen. He served fourteen months and was honorably 
discharged for disability. He returned home a mere 
skeleton, but soon recovered and married. He is an artist 
by profession and was living in 1896 at St. Louis, Mo. 

Children, born at Panton, Vt.: 

1951. i. SARAH GRANDEY, born Mar. 19, 1872; unmarried in 

1896. 

1952. ii. JOHN ROLLIN, born June 4, 1874. 

1299. JUBA HOWE CONVERSE" (Sarah A. Grandey' Jesse 
Grandey" Mary Hinsdale' Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas* Rob- 
ert'), son of Jefferson Converse and Sarah Grandey, his 
wife, born at Panton, Vt., November 7, 1852, married 
there, February 6, 1889, Clara L. Trask. He is a wheel- 
wright and resides at Panton. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 385 

Child: 

1953. i. ROLLIN TRASK, born at Panton, Dec. 3, 1889. 

1300. MARY EVA SPALDING » (Jane Lucretia Grandey' Jesse 

Grandey* Mary Hinsdale'' Joseph^ Isaac' Barnabas^ Rob- 
ert'), daughter of Henry Spalding and Jane Lucretia 
Grandey, his wife, born at Bristol, Vt., May 19, 1851, was 
taken to New York City by her father in 1863, after 
the death of her mother. She was graduated at the 
Normal School, and has been a teacher since about 1870. 
During her vacation, in 1895, she took a trip to Europe. 
She is a cultivated, interesting woman. She has never 
married. Her address in 1896 was New York City. 

1301. HENRY SPALDING, JR.* (Jane Lucretia Grandey' Jesse 

Grandey* Mary Hinsdale^ Joseph'' Isaac' Barnabas^ Rob- 
ert'), son of Henry Spalding and Jane Lucretia Grandey, 
his wife, born at Bristol, Vt., November 18, 1853, was 
married at Bricksburg, N. J., by Rev. A. H. DashieU, Jr., 
October 3, 1875, to Hannah Maria Adams, who was born 
at Bricksburg, September 5, 1855. They reside in New 
York City, where Mr. Spalding has been successful in busi- 
ness. 

Children : 

1954. i. HARRY C, christened and confirmed Harry Jesse, bom 

at 51 Hoosic Street, Troy, N. Y., June 26, 1876. 

1955. ii. GERTRUDE, bom at 222 Thompson Street, New York, 

N. Y., Dec. 2, 1879, 

1956. iii. MAUDE, bom at 11 Varick Place, New York, Jan. 28, 

1881. 

1957. iv. PERCY, born at 105 Lewis Street, New York, Dec. 16, 

1882. 

1958. V. SAMUEL, bom at 105 Lewis Street, New York, Mar. 5, 

1885; died Feb. 2, 1887. 

1959. vi. RUBY, born at 209 West 20th Street, New York, Aug. 

18, 1895. 

1960. vii. ELIZA JANE, bom at 215 West 13th Street, New York, 

Aug. 18, 1895. 

1304. HONORABLE JEREMIAH NEWTON DEXTER « (New- 
ton Lord Dexter' OUvia Hinsdale' Moses' Joseph* Isaac' 
Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Newton Lord Dexter and Lydia 
Cook, his wife, born at Hempstead, Long Island, N. Y., 



386 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

September 9, 1841, enlisted September 1, 1861, and was 
mustered into the service of the United States as a private 
of Company G., (Captain Hitchcock), and served with the 
regiment (the Seventh Infantry of Connecticut Volunteers) 
imtil June 16, 1862. He was woimded Jmie 16, 1862, 
in the engagement at Fort Secession, Folly Island, S. C, 
and was sent to the Hospital at Beaufort, S. C. He served 
as nurse at that hospital for a month or so, and was then 
appointed clerk of the hospital and served as such until 
the next May. He was then appointed clerk at Head- 
quarters Department of the South at Hilton, S. C. He 
served as such until his regiment, with others, was ordered 
to Virginia, in May, 1864. He remained with the staff 
of General Gilmore, who was appointed to the command 
of the tenth Army Corps. He was clerk at Corps Head- 
quarters until taken do\^^l with typhoid fever at Bermuda 
Hundred in August, 1864. He was sent to the hospital 
at Point of Rocks, Va., and was far on the way to recovery 
when his term of enlistment expired, May 16, 1864, on 
which day he was honorably discharged. He married, 
September 23, 1873, Celia E. Chamberlain, at Waverly, 
N. Y. They have one daughter (by adoption), Mary C. 
Dexter. Jeremiah N. Dexter read law with Hon. Donald 
J. Warner at Salisbury, Conn. He was admitted to the 
bar at Litchfield, Conn., at the March term of the Supreme 
Court and Covu-t of Errors, 1867. He ])racticed law at 
Salisbury two years. He removed to Waverly, N. Y., 
in March, 1869. He practiced law at Waverly until May, 
1882, when he removed to Detroit, Mich. He went into 
the coal business in the summer of that year and has been 
in it ever since. While practicing law, he was three times 
elected Special County Judge of Tioga County, N. Y., 
and resigned after serving two years of the last term. 

1305 ANNE ELIZABETH DEXTER « (Newton Lord Dexter' 
Olivia Hinsdale" Moses' Joseph^ Isaac' Barnabas' Robert'), 
daughter of Newton Lord Dexter and Lydia Cook, his 
wife, born January 23, 1843, died at Archer, Neb., April 
11, 1894. She married at Salisbury, Conn., October 28, 
1868, George N. Burch. 

Children : 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 387 

1961. i. BERNICE LILIAN, bom at StewartsviUe, Mo., Nov. 28, 

1869; married at Central City, Neb., Feb. 27, 1895, Harry 
G. Kerr. 

1962. ii. NEWTON DEXTER, bom at StewartsviUe June 16, 

1871. 

1963. ill. CARRIE HELEN, bom at Salisbury, Conn., July 17, 

1872; died at StewartsviUe, Sept. 29, 1882. 

1964. iv. CHARLES EDGAR, bom at StewartsvUle, Nov. 15, 

1873. 

1965. V. GEORGE BANCROFT, bom at StewartsviUe, Sept. 5, 

1875. 

1966. vi. HOWARD BERKLEY, bom at StewartsvUle, Mar. 18, 

1878. 

1306. STEPHEN HINSDALE DEXTER » (Newton Lord Dex- 

ter' Olivia Hinsdale* Moses* Joseph^ Isaac^ Barnabas^ 
Robert'), son of Newton Lord Dexter and Lydia Cook, 
his wife, born at Salisbury, Conn., October 2, 1844, mar- 
ried at New Haven, Conn., April 29, 1874, Edna Augusta 
Morgan. 

Children : 

1967. i. EDNA MORGAN, bom at Salisbury, Conn., June 6, 1875 

1968. U. NEWTON HINSDALE, bom at Southbury, Conn., Dec. 

13, 1878. 

1969. iu. JANE LYDIA, born at Southbury, Sept. 5, 1880. 

1970. iv. STEPHEN EDWARD, bom at Southbury, July 31, 

1882. 

1971. V. WILLIAM THEODORE, bom at Clarks, Neb., May 7, 

1885. 

1972. vi. BEULAH AUGUSTA, bom at Clarks, Dec. 21, 1887. 

1307. MARY CAROLINE DEXTER « (Newton Lord Dexter^ 

Olivia Hinsdale" Moses* Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^, 
daughter of Newton Lord Dexter and Lydia Cook, his 
wife, born at SaUsbury, Conn., August 6, 1846, married 
at Salisbury, July 2, 1869, James Palen RARABAiiK. 

Children: 

1973. i. WILLIAM DEXTER, bom at Salisbury, Conn., Sept. 8, 

1870; died at Winsted, Conn., Dec. 27, 1870. 

1974. ii. GERTRUDE MAITLAND, bom at Winsted, Conn., Jan. 

7, 1873; died there May 9, 1873. 

1975. iu. JAMES NEWTON, bom at Winsted, Apr. 22, 1874; died 

there Apr. 24, 1874. 

1976. iv. LOUIS CLARK, bom at Wmsted, Aug. 29, 1879. 

1977. V. HOWARD DEXTER, bom at Winsted, Sept. 29, 1882; 

died there, Oct 3, 1886. 



388 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

1308. THEODORE FRELINGHUYSEN DEXTER « (Newton 

Lord Dexter' Olivia Hinsdale' Moses^ Joseph* Isaac* Bar- 
nabas' Robert'), son of Newton Lord Dexter and Lydia 
Cook, his wife, born at Salisbury, Conn., November 18, 
1848, married at Sheffield, Mass., November 6, 1884, 
Mary L. Spurr. 

1309. HARRIET LOUISE DEXTER « (Newton Lord Dexter' 

Olivia Hinsdale' Moses^ Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas' Robert'), 
daughter of Newton Lord Dexter and Lydia Cook, his 
wife, born at Salisbm-y, Conn., June 15, 1852, married 
there, October 11, 1888, William C. Cornell. 

Children, born at Lakeville, Conn.: 

1978, i. MARION DEXTER, bom June 13, 1892. 

1979. ii. MARSHALL VAN NORDEN, born Oct. 15, 1894. 

1312. SERGEANT REVERE DEXTER SHOOK « (Olivia Maria 
Dexter' Olivia Hmsdale' Moses"* Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ 
Robert*), son of Henry G. Shook and Olivia Maria Dex- 
ter, his wife, born November 19, 1842, died April 4, 1886. 
He married, May 2, 1869, Frances E. Alexander. Re- 
vere Dexter Shook enlisted in the Sixth Regiment of 
of New Hampshire Veteran Volunteers, on January 8, 
1864, and mider that enhstment was discharged from ser- 
vice July 17, 1865, near Alexandria, Virginia. He en- 
listed as a Private, in Company C, in said Regiment, was 
promoted to Corporal, June 1, 1865; promoted to Sergeant, 
Jime 10, 1865; promoted to First Sergeant, July 1, 1865. 
He participated in the following engagements: 

(1.) Wilderness, Va., May 6, 1864. 
(2.) Spottsylvania, Va., May 12, 1864. 
(3.) Spottsylvania, Va., May 18, 1864. 
(4.) North Anna River, May 26, 1864. 
(5.) Tolopotomey Creek, Va., May 31, 1864. 
(6.) Bethesda Church, Va., June 3, 1864. 
(7.) Coal Harbor, Va.. June 9, 1864. 
(8.) Petersburg, Va., June 17, 18, and 19. 1864. 
(9.) Cemetery HiU, Va., July 30, 1864. 
(10.) Welden R. R., August 22, 1864. 
(11.) Poplar Spring Church, Va., September 30, 1864; 
when he was taken prisoner, and held a prisoner of 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 389 

war until February 18, 1865, when he escaped from a 
rebel prison and entered the union line at Charleston, 
S. C. While connected with the regiment he was a 
brave, true, and faithful soldier. 

Children : 

1980. i. REVERE ALEXANDER, born Nov. 7, 1871. 

1981. ii. ROBERT JAMES, born Jan. 29, 1880. 

1982. iii. EDWIN HENRY, born June 12, 1885; died Aug. 25, 

1886. 

1313. HERMAN HINSDALE SHOOK" (Olivia Maria Dexter^ 
Olivia Hinsdale* Moses* Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert*), 
son of Henry G. Shook and Olivia Maria Dexter, his wife, 
born February 28, 1846, married July 25, 1872, Annie 
E. Knight. 

Children : 

1983. i. BERTHA KNIGHT, born Apr. 22, 1873; married July 

4, 1896, Edgar S. Ivnapp. 

1984. ii. ELLA MAY, bom Dec. 27, 1880; died May 18, 1891. 

1985. iii. EDNA LOUISA, born Dec. 2, 1884. 

1316. LAURA BYINGTON" (Henry Harmon Byington' Anson 
Bymgton* Lucy Hinsdale* Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ Rob- 
ert'), daughter of Henry Harmon Byington and Susan 
Whittier Archibald, his wife, married Reverend Myron 
PiNKERTON, who died in Africa several years ago. He 
was a missionary to Mrica, sent by the American Board 
of Foreign Missions, and located with the Zulu Tribe. 
His widow resided at 650 Adams Street, Chicago, 111., in 
1898. 

Children : 

1986. i. HENRY, a student in the Congregational Theological 

Seminary in 1898. 

1987. ii. LOTTIE, a student in the Art Institute, Chicago, in 1898. 

1988. iii. ELLA, a book-keeper in Chicago in 1898. 

1321. ERMINA EMILY BYINGTON " (Hkam Hubert Byington' 
Anson Byington* Lucy Hinsdale" Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ 
Robert') daughter of Hiram Hubert Byington and Martha 
Burkett, his wife, married, first, Honorable William 
French of Williston and Burlington, Vt., a man well 



390 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

known in Vermont. She married, second, Henry Lewis, 
a farmer. 

Child: 

By her first husband, Hon. William French. 

1989. i. CHARLES S., lives with his mother and wife and five 

children at Lake Geneva, Wis., where he practices law; 
he has been Mayor of Lake Geneva. 

1324. FRANK LYJ^IAN ALLEN « (Caroline EUza Wicker^ Orilla 
Byington" Lucy Hinsdale^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas' Rob- 
ert'), son of Isaac Allen and Caroline Eliza Wicker, his 
wife, married March 11, 1875, Fannte Foot. 

Children : 

1990. i. WALTER F., a journalist in Buffalo, N. Y. 

1991. ii. EUGENE W. 

1330. CHARLES SPERRY BYINGTON « (John Fletcher Bying- 
ton' John Byington" Lucy Hinsdale* Joseph* Isaac^ Bar- 
nabas' Roberto, son of Doctor Jolm Fletcher Byington 
and Martha Louisa Smith, his wufe, born at Newton, 
Mich., March 14, 1861, married October 25, 1892, Jennie 
Stanford of Albany, N. Y. He lives at Albany. 

Child: 

1992. i. CHLOE CASTLE, born at Albany, N. Y., May 3, 1896. 

1344. ADELINE MARY HINSDALE « (Norman Mitchell' Mitch- 

ell' Aaron* Joseph* Isaac* Barnabas' Robert'), daughter 
of Norman Mitchell Hinsdale and his first wife, Elizabeth 
Reynolds Luther, born near Grand Rapids, Mich., Feb- 
ruary 8, 1848, married at Morris, 111., December 17, 1868, 
Charles Pitman of Knoxville, Tenn., who was born at 
Bristol, R. I., December 14, 1843. 

Children, born at Lamont, Mich.: 

1993. i. ELIZABETH GRACE, bom Nov. 1, 1869; married Frank 

Keiper. 

1994. ii. BENJAMIN, bom Sept. 15, 1870; married Lelia Cecil 

Allatt. 

1995. iii. NORMAN HINSDALE, born June 12, 1876. 

1345. ELLEN ROSELLE HINSDALE « (Norman Mitchell' Mitch- 

ell" Aaron' Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas' Robert'), daughter 



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of Norman Mitchell Hinsdale and his first wife, Elizabeth 
Reynolds Luther, born near Grand Rapids, Mich., May 
24, 1849, married at Lamont, Mich., February 2, 1875, 
Theodore A. Sloan of Pueblo, Colo., born at Rushville, 
Ind., September 2, 1847. Mr. and Mrs. Sloan now (1905) 
reside at Colorado Springs, Colo. 

Children, born at Pueblo, Colo.: 

1996. i. EDWIN HINSDALE, born Oct. 24, 1875; died at Pueblo, 

Mar. 7, 1880. 

1997. ii. THEODORE ALBERT, bom Aug. 30, 1877; died at 

Pueblo, Apr. 17, 1878. 

1998. iii. EDITH CLARA, born Feb. 18, 1880. 

1999. iv. HELEN ADELINE, bom Mar. 28, 1887. 

2000. V. NORMAN HINSDALE, bora June 26, 1890. 

1347. NORMAN DWIGHT HINSDALE' (Norman MitcheU' 
Mitchell" Aaron^ Joseph" Isaac^ Barnabas'' Robert*), son 
of Norman Mitchell Hinsdale and his second wife, Isabella 
Cameron, born at Lamont, Ottawa Coimty, Mich., May 
10. 1862, married at Los Angeles, Cal., February 7, 1001, 
Elizabeth Eloise Baldwin, who was born April 6, 1877. 
He was graduated at the University of Michigan, at Ann 
Arbor, in June, 1883. He was Cashier of the Public Na- 
tional Bank, at Pueblo, Colo., in 1897. He is now a loan 
broker and real estate agent, with offices in the Central 
Block, Pueblo. 

Children : 

2001. i. RUSH CAMERON, born at Pueblo, June 22, 1903. 

2002. ii. DAVID BALDWIN, bom Apr. 30, 1905. 

1355. CHARLES MITCHELL HINSDALE' (George Aaron' 
]\IitchelP Aaron^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^, son 
of Lieutenant-Governor George Aaron Hmsdale and Jose- 
phine Miu-ray Sebastian, his wife, born at Dakota City, 
Neb., July 24, 1858, married at Garden City, Kan,, Jul}'- 
9, 1884, Clara Emelia Dempsey, who was born at Akron, 
O., February 23, 1860. 

Children : 

2003. i. CHARLES MITCHELL, bom at Garden City, Kan., Aug. 

19, 1886. 

2004. ii. GENEVIEVE, born at Poloduro, Tex., May 1, 1889. 



392 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

2005. iii. EDWIN MERRILL, bom near Goodright, Armstrong 

Co., Tex., Dec. 21, 1891. 

2006. iv. MARY JOSEPHINE, bora near Goodright, Oct. 4, 1894. 

1360. JAMES SPENCER BARSTOW (Genevieve Delia Hins- 

dale' Mitchell' Aaron' Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert')* 
son of George Frederick Barstow and Genevieve Delia 
Hinsdale, his wife, born at Lisbon, 111., February 16, 
1860, was married at Detroit, Mich., by Rev. George 
Worthington, January 10, 1883, to Nellie E. Whitte- 

MORE. 

Child: 

2007. i. JESSIE, bom October, 1888; died February, 1889. 

1361. FAYETTE BARSTOW « (Genevieve Delia Hmsdale' Mitch- 

ell' Aaron^ Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert'), son of George 
Frederick Barstow and Genevieve Deha Hinsdale, his 
wife, was born at Morris, 111., January 22, 1862, and mar- 
ried by Rev. C. D. Brown, August 27, 1895, to Ella Keas- 

BY. 

Children : 

2008. i. JOHN, bom at South Haven, Mich., June 6, 1896. 

2009. ii ELEANOR, born at Crawfordsville, Ind., July 15, 1900. 

2010. iii. J.\MES RUFUS, bom at CrawfordsvUle, Feb. 13, 1903. 

1365. DOROTHY BARSTOW « (Genevieve Delia Hmsdale' Mitch- 

ell' Aaron' Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert'), daughter of 
George Frederick Barstow and Genevieve Delia Hins- 
dale, his wife, was born at Chicago, 111., October 22, 1872; 
married Frederic W. Pettibone, May 24, 1899. 

Child: 

2011. i. GENEVIEVE DOROTHY, bom May 24, 1900. 

1366. FREDERICK HINSDALE HOSFORD « (Myron Hinsdale 

Hosford' Cynthia Hinsdale' Aaron* Joseph* Isaac' Barna- 
bas' Robert'), son of Myron Hinsdale Hosford and Sarah 
Ann Stearns, his wife, born at Charlotte, Vt., July 21> 
1855, married. May 12, 1886, Jennie Elizabeth Stone, 
who was born at Charlotte, March 9, 1861. 

Children : 

2012. i. PHEBE STONE, bom at Southwick, Mass., June 8, 1890. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 393 

2013. ii. CYRUS PRINGLE, bom at Charlotte, Vt., Apr. 9, 1892. 

2014. iii, EARL FREDERICK, bom at Charlotte, Oct. 26. 189.4 

1369. JANE FINNEY HOSFORD« (Myron Hinsdale Hosford' 
Cjaithia Hinsdale* Aaron^ Joseph" Isaac^ Barnabas^ Rob- 
ert*), daughter of Myron Hinsdale Hosford and Sarah 
Ann Stearns, his wife, born at Charlotte, Vt., February 
9, 1864, married, July 2, 1882, William Hall Trow- 
bridge, who was born at Rutland, Vt., February 12, 
1862. 

Child: 

2015. i. ELIZABETH, bom at Rutland, Vt., Aug. 28, 1893. 

1371. DOCTOR SUSAN BRAINARD ARNOLD « (Carolme Celes- 
tia Tyrrell' Jerusha Hinsdale' Aaron ^ Joseph* Isaac^ Bar- 
nabas^ Robert'), daughter of Jared Arnold and Caroline 
Celestia Tyrrell, his wife, born at Detroit, Mich., June 2, 
1854, married at Buffalo, N. Y., June, 1881, Beaumont 
Parks, who died at Pearl Creek, N. Y., February, 1895. 
She is a very successful physician at Philadelphia, Pa., 
though she is prevented from doing her best by ill health, 
the result of extreme overwork in her profession and in 
the preparation for it, combined with an unbounded gener- 
osity which sets no limits on her sacrifices. If there was 
only a saving grain of selfislmess in her, her chances of 
life and success would be bright indeed. Dr. Parks in- 
herited a great deal of her mother's wit and humor, having 
the faculty of saying the brightest things and telling the 
funniest stories in an inimitable way. 

1377. ARTHUR DEAN HURLBUT " (Thalia Dean' Betsey Hins- 
dale* Aaron* Joseph" Isaac^ Barnabas'* Robert'), son of 
Medad H. Hurlbut and Thalia Dean, his wife, born at Monk- 
ton, Vt., May 24, 1842; married, first, in Vermont, De- 
cember 28, 1863, Alfaretta M. Green. He married, 
second, in Illinois, June 10, 1895, Harriet J. McGriff, 
a widow. In 1896, he was in the stock raising busmess 
with his eldest son, at Ipswich, So. Dak. 

Children : 

By hia first wife, Alfaretta M. Green. 

2016. i. ARTHUR DEAN, bom 1867; engaged with his father in 

the stock-raising business at Ipswich, So. Dak.; has 
two sons. 



394 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

2017. ii. HENRY WARD, bom 1871; was a commercial traveler 
in 1896. 

1379. ELLEN JEANNETTE DEAN« (Althea Fay Hinsdale' 
Hiram" Joseph^ Joseph^ Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^ , daughter 
of Lewis Denison Dean and Althea Fay Hinsdale, his wife, 
born at Cannonsburg, Mich., April. 8, 1846, is unmarried. 
In 1897 she was living at Grand Rapids, Mich. After the 
death of her father in 1 849, her mother removed to Monk- 
ton, Vt., where she died, Nov. 28, 1853. Here Ellen spent 
her early youth. The people, as well as the beautiful 
scenery of Vermont have always been the dearest possession 
of her memory, which may perhaps account for her impa- 
tience imder the vulgar caricatures of the "Josiah Allen's 
Wife" stamp. She was in the far west diu-ing the Civil 
War, where the loudest echo which reached her of the tumult 
in the east came from the flying feet of the Pony Express, 
and the drum which beat for the enlistment of a few sol- 
diers. She retm-ned to the east in 1864, in a steamer which 
had the honor of being chased for a short time by a Con- 
federate steamer flying the English flag. In 1866 she re- 
turned to Nevada by coach, taking about three weeks 
between Chicago and Virginia City. In January, 1878, 
she began teaching in the Grand Rapids High School, 
under Mr. Strong as Principal. Her life now became one 
of study and teaching. To break the monotony of con- 
tinual instruction she has been foiu* times abroad. The 
second time she stayed one year, most of the time at Leip- 
sic. Her last visit to Europe was from May, 1892 to 
August, 1893. Much of that time was spent in France 
and Italy. In 1893 she resumed her teachmg in the Grand 
Rapids High School at Grand Rapids, Mich. Her life 
as a teacher has been a most thorough one, and she is held 
in the highest regard by all with whom she is associated. 

1381. GIDEON DEAN PRINDLE« (Emily Dean' Betsey Hins- 
dale' Aaron* Joseph^ Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert*), son of 
Charles Pr indie and Emily Dean, his wife, born at Char- 
lotte, Vt., December 1, 1843, was married at Douglas, 
Kan., by C. A. Stine, September 30, 1875, to Sarah Jane 
Renfro, who was born in Missoiu-i, November 18, 1850. 
They had no children. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 395 

1382. LEWIS CHARLES PRINDLE » (Emily Dean ' Betsey Hins- 

dale* AaroD* Joseph^ Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert'), son of 
Charles Prindle and Emily Dean, his wife, born at Char- 
lotte, Vt., March 18, 1847, was married by Rev. Mr. Dean, 
January 8, 1867, to Jane Charity Clark, who was born 
at Charlotte in 1845. 

Child: 

2018. i. GUY CLARKE, bom at Ferrisburg, Vt., Apr. 6, 1868; 

married at Charlton, Mass., Dec. 10, 1891, Sarah Ham- 
mond, who was bom Jan. 5, 1871; they lost two chil- 
dren, a son fifteen days old, and a daughter twenty 
months old. 

1383. ERNEST HINSDALE PRINDLE « (Emily Dean' Betsey 

Hinsdale' Aaron^ Joseph^ Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert*), son 
of Charles Prindle and Emily Dean, his wife, born at Char- 
lotte, Vt., June 14, 1851, was married at Chicago, 111., by 
Rev. Stephen Champlin, October 13, 1875, to Frances 
Cornelia Andrews, who was born at Genesee, N. Y., 
Jime 5, 1850. 

Child: 

2019. i. ROBERT COLLYER, bom at Chicago, 111., June 30, 1878. 

1384. GEORGE WILLIAM PRINDLE' (Emily Dean' Betsey 

Hinsdale* Aaron^ Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert'), son 
of Charles Prindle and Emily Dean, his wife, born at Char- 
lotte, Vt., April 12, 1858, was married at Charlotte, by Rev. 
Mr. Putnam, January 17, 1883, to Jennie Marsh Bying- 
ton, of Hinesburg, Vt., born at Ferrisburg, Vt., August 
31, 1862. 

Children, born at Charlotte, Vt. : 

2020. i. LEON DEAN, bom July 24, 1884. 

2021. ii. JESSIE EDNA, bom Sept. 28, 1885. 

2022. iii. LESTER MARSH, bom Dec. 12, 1892. 

1385. THALIA ELIZA LADD » (Cleora Dean' Betsey Hinsdale' 

Aaron* Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert*), daughter of 
Martin B. Ladd and Cleora Dean, his wife, born at Farm- 
ington. Wis., April 11, 1857, married, September 16, 1875, 
Ellis Purple. They had two children. 



396 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

1386. ROBERT ANDERSON LADD « (Cleora Dean' Betsey Hins- 

dale* Aaron* Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^, son of 
Martin B. Ladd and Cleora Dean, his wife, born at Farm- 
mgton. Wis., March 20, 1860. He was Sheriff of Lax 
County, Wis., in 1896. He married and has two daugh- 
ters. 

1387. HELEN KATE LADD » (Cleora Dean' Betsey Hinsdale" 

Aaron* Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert*), daughter of 
Martin B. Ladd and Cleora Dean, his wife, born at Farm- 
ington, Wis., March 10, 1862, married, June 24, 1885, 
Eugene A. Sherwin. They lived at Ashland, Ore., in 
1896. 

1389. CHARLES M. PALMER » (Helen A. Dean' Betsey Hins- 
dale* Aaron* Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert^, son of 
Cassius C. Palmer and Helen A. Dean, his wife, born at 
Mindon, Wis., October 3, 1856, married at La Crosse, Wis., 
September 28, 1881, Mary Sill. In 1896, he resided in 
New York City and was Business Manager of the New 
York Journal. 

Children : 

2023. i. CHARLES SILL, bom Sept. 10, 1885. 

2024. ii. DEAN, bom Nov. 30, 1887. 

1393. LEWIS HINSDALE WITHEY« (Marion Louise Hinsdale' 
Myron* Aaron* Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas" Robert'), son 
of Judge Solomon Lewis Withey and Marion Louise Hins- 
dale, his wife, born at Grand Rapids, Mich., January 21, 
1847, was married, by Rev. J. Morgan Smith, November 
9, 1872, to Margaret McQuean, or McQuen, born at 
Pittsburg, Pa., March 24, 1851. Lewis Hmsdale Withey 
began his business Ufe as a lumberman, in which he was 
very successful. In 1898 he was President of the Michi- 
gan Trust Company of Grand Rapids. He is a prominent 
business man. 

Child: 

2025. i. MAUDE, bom at Grand Rapids, Mich., Nov. 9, 1873; 

married Nov. 6, 1891, Samuel Harris of Detroit, son of 
Bishop Harris. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 397 

1395. EDWARD WILLIAM WITHEY" (Marion Louise Hins- 

dale^ Myron" Aaron' Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert'), 
son of Judge Solomon Lewis Withey and Marion Louise 
Hinsdale, his wife, born at Grand Rapids, Mich., Decem- 
ber 25, 1852, died there March 9, 1889. He married at 
Grand Rapids, June 3, 1884, Emma liYON, who was born 
at Grand Rapids, November 29, 1859, and died there Feb- 
ruary 7, 1893. Edward W. Withey was graduated from 
the Grand Rapids High School m 1870, and from the Uni- 
versity of Michigan in 1874. He studied in a law office 
for a time, then took a law course at the University of 
Michigan. He began his practice with bright prospects, 
was loved, honored and respected as few men so young are. 

Children, born at Grand Rapids: 

2026. i. MARION E., born July 7, 1885. 

2027. ii. EDWARD LYON, bom Oct. 18, 1888. 

1396. CHESTER HENRY WITHEY » (Marion Louise Hinsdale^ 

Myron" Aaron^ Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert^, son of 
Judge Solomon Lewis Withey and Marion Louise Hins- 
dale, his wife, born at Grand Rapids, Mich., June 15, 1855, 
married at Park City, Utah, November 4, 1886, Mary 
Kelso. 

Children, born at Park City, Utah.: 

2028. i. CHESTER C, bom Nov. 8, 1887. 

2029. ii. MARGARET, bom Aug. 26, 1889. 



1397. ELEANOR M. WITHEY' (Marion Louise Hinsdale' My- 
ron* Aaron^ Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter 
of Judge Solomon Lewis Withey and Marion Louise Hins- 
dale, his wife, born at Grand Rapids, Mich., June 5, 1858, 
was married there by Rev. A. Morrison, November 17, 
1887, to Willis B. Willard, who was born November 6, 
1846. Eleanor M. Withey was graduated from the Grand 
Rapids High School. She took a four years course at 
Vassar College, where she was graduated in 1880. She 
later took a winter coiu-se at the Art League School, New 
York. She has given years of study to her art, is fond of 
it and has illustrated several children's books. 



398 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Children : 

2030. i. BRADLEY, bom at St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 28, 1888; died 

Feb. 9. 1901. 

2031. ii. DOROTHY, born at Grand Rapids, Oct. 20, 1891; died 

Nov. 2, 1902. 

1398. CHARLES SHEPARD WITHEY' (Marion Louise Hins- 

dale' Myron' Aaron* Joseph^ Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert^, 
son of Judge Solomon Lewis Withey and Marion Louise 
Hinsdale, his wife, born February 3, 1867, married, No- 
vember 2, 1898, at Monroe, Mich., Marguerite Conant. 

Child: 

2032. i. THURBER CONANT, bom Mar. 1, 1902. 

1399. CORINNE HINSDILL ' (Chester Bingham' Myron" Aaron' 

Joseph" Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert'), daughter of Colonel 
Chester Bingham Hinsdill and Julie Eldredge Matthews, 
his wife, born at Mobile, Ala., July 27, 1870, married at 
Grand Rapids, Mich., December 14, 1893, Charles Fox, 
born at Grosse He, Mich., December 15, 1853, who was of 
a distinguished English family of Durham, Eng. His 
father. Reverend Charles Fox, of the Church of England, 
occupied a chair at the L^niversity of ^Michigan, and was a 
brother of Sir William Fox who was Premier of New Zeal- 
and. On the side of his mother, who was a Rucker, Mr. 
Fox was of Huguenot descent, one of his ancestors having 
fled from France at the "Edict of Nantes." They reside 
at Grosse He, Mich. 

1420. MARY EMMA HISEY« (Nancy Maria Fabrique' Louisa 
Hinsdale' Aaron* Joseph" Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert*), daugh- 
ter of Jacob Hisey, Jr. and Nancy Maria Fabrique, his 
wife, born at Corydon, Ind., June 12, 1860, died at Los 
Angeles, Cal., September 15, 1882. She married at Pueblo, 
Colo., December 16, 1880, 1. C. Goff, of Cleveland, O. He 
is a civil engineer, and a graduate of the University of 
Michigan. She was a musician of remarkable talent. 



'to^ 



1421. LOUISA HINSDALE HISEY « (Nancy Maria Fabrique' 
Louisa Hinsdale" Aaron* Joseph" Isaac' Barnabas- Robert'), 
daughter of Jacob Hisey, Jr., and Nancy Maria Fabriciue, 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 399 

his wife, born at Paris, 111., May 20, 1864, married, first, 
April 25, 1889, at Los Angeles, Cal., Joseph Logan, of 
New York City, a boot and shoe merchant, who died at 
Los Angeles, July 5, 1890. She married, second, at Los 
Angeles, July 15, 1896, H. G. Lynch. 

1422. WILLIMI NEWELL HISEY« (Nancy Maria Fabrique^ 
Louisa Hinsdale' Aaron^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert*), 
son of Jacob Hisey, Jr. and Nancy Maria Fabrique, his 
wife, born at Paris, 111., April 12, 1867, a graduate of the 
High School and Business College of Los Angeles, Cal., 
and of the law department of Cornell LTniversity, N. Y., 
resided in 1897 in the City of Mexico, Mexico. He is a 
member of the bar of Mexico, and a fine Spanish and Port- 
uguese scholar. 

1435. HENRY LESTER STARKS FINNEY ^ (Solon Hinsdill 

Finney' Sarah Hinsdale' Aaron^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ 
Robert'), son of Solon Hinsdill Finney and Mariette E. 
Barstow, his wife, born at Easton, Mich., August 14, 1854, 
died at Grand Rapids, Mich., January 23, 1891. He 
was married at Cooper, Mich., by Rev, S. N. Griffith, 
October 5, 1875, to Lillie L. Stimpson, who was born 
May 28, 1853. 

Children : 

2033. i. SOLON LESTER, bom and died at Kalamazoo, Mich., 

Mar. 5, 1877. 

2034. ii. AGNES LOUISE, bom at Grand Rapids, Mich., Aug. 9, 

1881. 

1436. LAFAYETTE HINSDILL FINNEY « (Solon Hinsdill Fin- 

ney' Sarah Hinsdale' Aaron^ Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ 
Robert'), son of Solon Hinsdill Finney and Mariette E. 
Barstow, his wife, born at Easton, Mich., September 14, 
1857, was married at Sturgis, Mich., by Rev. J. W. Wilson, 
January 23, 1880, .to Nettie A. Sanborn, of Stiu-gis, who 
was born May 18, 1853. 

Child: 

2035. i. MARIETTE ESTHER, bom at Waneego, Kan., Aug. 2, 

1884. 



400 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

1442. WILLIAM JEFFERSON BUIE« (Aaron Hinsdale Buie' 
Nancy Hinsdale" Aaron^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert*), 
son of Aaron Hinsdale Buie and Virginia Caroline Hebra, 
his wife, born in Franklin County, Miss., December 18, 
1869, married at Waxahachie, Tex., April 20, 1892, Vic- 
toria FusTON, who was born at Shelbyville, Shelby Coimty, 
Tenn., June 9, 1867. 

Child: 

2036. i. MARY EDNA, bom at Whitewright, Grayson Co., Tex., 

Apr. 6, 1893. 

1453. CHARLES PIERCE STONE' (Clement Walker Stone' 
Lucinda Hinsdale' Aaron^ Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas' Rob- 
ertO, son of Captain Clement Walker Stone and Caroline 
Moore, his wif*^, born at Kalamazoo, Mich., December 24, 
1869, married at Saginaw, Mich., August 24, 1892, Louise 
Marie Schriner, who was born at Saginaw, September 
22, 1869. 

Child: 

2037. i. CLEMENT ALBERT, born at Saginaw, Mich., Nov. 29, 

1894. 

1467. WALTER G. HINSDALE « (Seymour S.' Giles Seymour" 

Jacob^ Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas'* Robert^, son of Seymour 
S. Hinsdale and Elizabeth Cave, his wife, born in 1869, 
married in 1899, Christina Krull. 

Children : 

2038. i. VERNON C, born in 1901. 

2039. ii. EARL S., born in 1903. 

1468. LESTER J. HINSDALE « (Seymoiu- S.' Giles Seymour" 

Jacob'' Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas'* Robert'), son of Seymour 
S. Hinsdale and Elizabeth Cave, his wife, born in 1870, 
was graduated at the High School in Sacramento, Cal., in 
1891, and at Stanford University in 1895, being a member 
of the "Pioneer" class there. He was admitted to the Cali- 
fornia bar in 1896, and was Assistant in the Law Depart- 
ment of Stanford University in 1897 and 1898. He has 
been practicing his profession at Sacramento since June, 
1899, and is a rising attorney of prominence. He is at 
present associated with Wilbur F. George, an old practi- 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 401 

tioner there, under the firm name of George & Hinsdale, 
with offices at 401 J Street, Sacramento, Cal. 

1470. MOSES HINSDALE BARBER« (Harriet Hmsdale' Moses" 

David' Jonathan* Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert*), son of David 
Barber and Harriet Hinsdale, his wife, born January 29, 
1830, married, January 28, 1857, at Fabius, Onondaga 
Coimty, N. Y., Adeline E. Waters, born November 28, 
1841. 

Children : 

2040. i. ALICE, bom Dec. 13, 1857; died Apr. 24, 1870. 

2041. ii. HATTIE MAY, bom May 1, 1859; died Oct. 20, 1859. 

2042. iii. JED DAVID, bom June 8, 1861. 

2043. iv. LILLY, bom Aug. 21, 1866; died Aug. 27, 1866. 

2044. V. CHARLES ROSCOE, bom Apr. 28, 1868. 

2045. vi. An infant daughter, born Jan. 1, 1872; died same day. 

2046. vii. FLORENCE LOUISA, bom June 13, 1873; died Aug. 

19, 1873. 

1471. DANIEL GOTT BARBER' (Harriet Hinsdale^ Moses« 

David' Jonathan* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^, son of David 
Barber and Harriet Hinsdale, his wife, born October 11, 
1832, married, April 11, 1858, at Fabius, N. Y., Helen 
A. Lewis, born October 25, 1838. 

Child: 

2047. i. ADAH L., bom Aug. 3, 1863; died Mar. 10, 1888; mar- 

ried at Easton, Md., Mar. 18, 1886, William E. Roe, 

1473. MARY ETTE BARBER » (Harriet Hinsdale' Moses" David* 
Jonathan* Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert*), daughter of David 
Barber and Harriet Hinsdale, his wife, born November 
9, 1841, married July 31, 1871, at Syracuse, N. Y., Cyrus 
G. Stafford, born May 1, 1836. 

Children : 

2048. i. FLORENCE BARBER, bom Nov. 24, 1872; died Feb. 

25, 1876. 

2049. ii. HERBERT HINSDALE, bom Mar. 22, 1876; died Aug. 

27, 1876. 

2050. iii. MABEL HATTIE, bom Mar. 22, 1876; died Sept. 24 ^ 

1876. 

2051. iv. GRACE ESTELLE, bom Feb. 19, 1882. 



402 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

1474. DELOS ELIJAH WELLS « (Mary Hinsdale' Moses" David' 

Jonathan^ Isaac' Barnabas' Robert^, son of John S. Wells 
and Mary Hinsdale, his wife, bom January 16, 1832, 
married September 12, 1860, at Cincinnati, O., Eliza 
Mitchell Macy, born March 18, 1837. They lived at 
Red Wing, Minn. 

Child: 

2052. i. MARY ELIZA, bom Aug. 18, 1861. 

1475. HARRIET ELIZA WELLS » (Mary Hinsdale' ]\loses« David* 

Jonathan^ Isaac' Barnabas' Robert'), daughter of John S. 
Wells and Mary Hinsdale, his wife, born August 26, 1833, 
married at Auburn, N. Y., January 5, 1859, Henry 
Lyman Duquid, born December 25, 1832. They lived at 
Syracuse, N. Y. 

Children : 

2053. i. MARY EVELYN, born Jan. 8, 1863. 

2054. ii. HARRIET ELIZA, bom Aug. 11, 1865. 

2055. iii. HENRY WELLS, bom Oct. 4, 1869. 

1476. JOHN EMMET WELLS « (Mary Hmsdale' Moses« David* 

Jonathan* Isaac' Barnabas' Robert*), son of John S. Wells 
and Mary Hinsdale, his wdfe, born December 15, 1839, 
married at Salina, N. Y., September 17, 1862, Makilda 
Pratt Dwight, born July 8, 1840. They lived at Syra- 
cuse, N. Y. 

Children; the five latter born at Syracuse, N. Y.: 

2056. i. MILTON DWIGHT, bom at Salina, N. Y., Aug. 31, 1863. 

2057. ii. LYNFORD JOHN, bom at Salina, May 22, 1865. 

2058. iii. MARION LEE, bom May 7, 1867. 

2059. iv. ELIZA DUQUID, bom June 18, 1871. 

2060. V. EMILY MARY, bom June 11, 1873. 

2061. vi. MABEL HELENE, bom Feb. 26, 1878. 

2062. vii. MARJORIE JESSICA, bom Apr. 3, 1880. 

1478. SARAH ELIZABETH HINSDALE' (David Hibbard' 
Moses' David^ Jonathan* Isaac' Barnabas' Robert'), daugh- 
ter of David Hibbard Hinsdale and Sophia Hatch Noyes, 
his wife, born May 13, 1842, married, January 26, 1863, 
at Manlius, Onondaga County, N. Y., Franklin A. May, 
born June 6, 1839. They lived in Syracuse, N. Y. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 403 

Children : 

2063. i. WILLIAM HENRY, bom Nov. 20, 1864. 

2064. ii. ELIJAH HINSDALE, born Oct. 8, 1865. 

2065. iii. JOHN EARL, born March 14, 1867. 

2066. iv. EDITH GRACE, born Apr. 9, 1876. 

1482. ELLEN ELIZABETH HINSDALE « (Stephen^ Moses" 

David^ Jonathan* Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter of 
Stephen Hinsdale and Mary Ann Barber, his wife, born 
June 19, 1843, married at Pompey, N. Y., December 17, 
1861, William H. De Lancey Clapp. They Uved at 
Pompey. 

Children : 

2067. i. IDA GARRIFILLIA, born Oct. 4, 1863. 

2068. ii. STEPHEN HINSDALE, born Feb. 7, 1872. 

2069. iii. FLORENCE, born May 30, 1875. 

2070. iv. HARRY, born Aug. 31, 1876. 

2071. V. FREDDIE, bom June 3, 1878. 

1483. IDA SARAH HINSDALE « (Stephen' Moses« David^ Jona- 

than* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert'), daughter of Stephen Hins- 
dale and Mary Ann Barber, his wife, born December 17, 
1850, married at Syracuse, N. Y., December 17, 1873, 
William Taylor Scheide, born April 20, 1847. They 
lived at Tydionte, Pa. 

Children : 

2072. i. JOHN HINSDALE, born Aug. 9, 1875. 

2073. ii. MARY GERTRUDE, bom July 8, 1879. 

1484. WILLIAM MOSES HINSDAI-E« (Stephen' Moses" David"* 
. Jonathan* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Stephen Hins- 
dale and Mary Ann Barber, his wife, born April 7, 1858, 
married, January 14, 1880, at Oswego Falls, N. Y., Bertha 
Eunice Somers, born March 5, 1858. They lived at 
Oswego Falls. 

Child: 

2074. i. WILLIAM MOSES, bom at Pierpont, St. Lawrence Co., 

N. Y., Oct. 30, 1880. 

1486. MILES ADMIS HINSDALE « (Perry H.^ Moses" David^ 
Jonathan* Isaac^ Barnabas' Robert*), son of Perry H. 
Hinsdale and his first wife, Sarah Isabel Adams, born 



404 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

March 23, 1851, died March 14, 1875. He married at 
Syracuse, N. Y., Ella Hamilton, born November 11, 
1852. They Hved at St. Paul, Mum. 

1487. CORA ETTA HINSDALE » (Perry H.' Moses" David'' Jona- 

than* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter of Perry H. 
Hinsdale and his first wife, Sarah Isabel Adams, born 
January 1, 1854, married at Salina, Onondaga Coimty, 
N. Y., July 14, 1879, Le Roy M. Dyer, born July 25, 1852. 
They lived for a time at Minneapolis, Minn., but their 
present address is Syracuse, N. Y. 

Child: 

2075. i. HAROLD, bom at Minneapolis, Feb. 27, 1881. 

1488. LEMAN HIBBARD HINSDALE « (Perry H.' Moses" David"* 

Jonathan* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Perry H. Hins- 
dale and his first wife, Sarah Isabel Adams, born May 10, 
1856, married at Cortland, N. Y., February 3, 1881, Char- 
lotte White Ringe. They lived at Fargo, N. D. 

1491. MARY J. CASWELL 8 (Susan Hinsdale' Chauncey" David^ 
Jonathan* Isaac' Barnabas' Robert^, daughter of Nelson 
Caswell and Susan Hinsdale, his wife, born at Manlius, 
N. Y., April 11, 1835, married at Manlius, September 24, 
1863, Philip Taylor Brownell, of Madison, Madison 
County, N. Y. She is now living at 120 Fiu-man Street, 
Syracuse, N. Y. 

Child: 

2076. i. rVA MAY, bom Dec. 17, 1869; married Charles Manlius 

Welch. 

1496. OLIVER ASAHEL HINSDALE (HINSDELL) « (Asahel 
Bemis' AsaheP David* Jonathan* Isaac' Barnabas' Robert^, 
son of Asahel Bemis Hinsdale and Eliza Inslee Hanks, 
his wife, born October 11, 1846, at Elgin, Kane County 
111., married at Chicago, 111., February 19, 1873, Harriett 
A. Starr, born at Whitehall, N. Y., August 21, 1849. 

Children : 

2077. i. ELLEN LOUCHELLE, bom Apr. 13, 1874; married a 

Mr. Carlsen. 

2078. ii. ROY STARR, bom Oct. 8, 1875; married Dorothy Cla- 

rissa Wooden. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 405 

2079. iii. ARTHUR BEMIS, IJom Apr. 12, 1885. 

2080. iv. OLIVER EDWIN, bom Sept. 15, 1889. 

1502. MARY HINSDALE » (Ira' David" David ' Jonathan* Isaac' 
Barnabas^ Robert^, [daughter of Ira Hinsdale and Ann 
Peck, his wife, born March 16, 1837, married at Amboy, 
Onondaga County, N. Y., August 25, 1859, Charles A. 
Baker, born December 25, 1836. They lived at Medina, 
N. Y. 

Children : 

2081. i. EDDIE H., bom May 28, 1860. 

2082. ii. CHARLES H., bom Mar. 18, 1864. 

2083. iii. JAMES M., bom Dec. 15, 1866. 

1505. IRA HINSDALE, JR.^ (Ira' David" David^ Jonathan* Isaac' 

Barnabas^ Robert*), son of Ira Hinsdale and Ann Peck, 
his wife, bom June 18, 1843, married February 4, 1869, 
at Camillus, N. Y., Helen J. Peck. They lived at Sedaha, 
Mo. 

Children : 

2084 i. CARRIE J., bom Apr. 16, 1872. 

2085. ii. MARY A., bom April, 1874. 

1506. ALFRED L. HINSDALE « (Ira' David" David^ Jonathan* 

Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Ira Hinsdale and Ann 
Peck, his wife, born October 5, 1845, married, January 23, 
1873, at Onondaga, Onondaga County, N. Y., Jennie 
Ellis, born July 10, 1850. They lived at Amboy, Onondaga 
County, N. Y. 

Children: 

2086. i. ALEXANDER ELLIS, bom Dec. 26, 1873. 

2087. ii. CORA BELLE, bom Feb. 27, 1875. 

1509. JAMES O. BENNETT, JR.« (Tira Hinsdale' David" David' 
Jonathan* Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert*), son of James 0. 
Bennett and Tira Hinsdale, his wife, born November 9, 
1839, married at Van Buren, Onondaga County, N. Y., 
December 20, 1860, Marietta Warmuth. They lived at 
Amboy, Onondaga County, N. Y. 

Child: 

2088. i. CHARLES HINSDALE, bom Feb. 29, 1864. 



406 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

1518. MARY FRANCES MILLER » (Martha Hinsdale' Jonathan' 
David* Jonathan* Isaac^ Barnabas' Robert'), daughter of 
Ebenezer N. IMiller and Martha Hinsdale, his wife, born 
May 15, 1845, married, December 15, 1864, in Cook County, 
111., Lewis B. Householder, born January 15, 1842. 

Children : 

2089. i. FLORA B., born Oct. 3, 1866. 

2090. ii. BERTHA M., born Sept. 20, 1868. 

1520. SOPHRONA McMILLAN ' (Charlotte Hinsdale' Jonathan" 
David* Jonathan* Isaac^ Barnabas' Robert'), daughter of 
Alexander McMillan and Charlotte Hinsdale, his wife, 
born August 2, 1848, married, September 17, 1868, Na- 
than C. Calhoun. 

Children : 

2091. i. WILLIAM E., bom June 6, 1869. 

2092. ii. ALEXANDER A., bora June 7, 1871. 

1533. RAY W. HINSDELL8 (George William' Jonathan" David* 

Jonathan* Isaac^ Barnabas' Robert'), son of George Wil- 
liam Hinsdell and Ada Gilbert, his wife, born July 27, 
1877, married, September 5, 1899, Cora E. Elmore, born 
November 12, 1877. 

Child: 

2093. i. ADAMAE, bora Mar. 20, 1902. 

1534. SERGEANT IRA CASSIUS HINSDALE « (George' Ira" 

David* Jonathan* Isaac^ Barnabas' Robert'), son of George 
Hinsdale and Harriet Ann Hamlin, his wife, born near 
Oxbow, N. Y., December 16 or 26, 1844, married at Ant- 
werp, N. Y., February 15, 1870, ]\Iarion F. Seymour, 
born at Antwerp m 1849, daughter of Isaac Seymour and 
Ellen Holland, his wife. He was Sergeant of Com])any G. 
of the 142nd New York Infantry Volunteers. He en- 
listed September 4, 1862; served at Fort Sumter, Peters- 
burg, Fort Fisher and other engagements; discharged 
Jime 7, 1865. He is a merchant, resided at Oxbow mitil 
1877, since then at Antwerp. In politics he is a Prohibi- 
tionist. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 407 

Child, born at Rapides, La.: 

2094. i. ROY SEYMOUR, born Feb . 26 or 27, 1871 or 1872; un- 

married in 1897; lives at Antwerp, N. Y. 

1535. FLORENCE L. HINSDALE « (George' Ira" David' Jona- 

than^ Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert'), daughter of George Hins- 
dale and Harriet Ann Hamlm, his wife, born at Oxbow, 
N. Y., August 8, 1848, married there, January 2, 1877, 
Alexander B. Clark, born at Rossie, N. Y., July 7, 
1848, son of Robert Clark and Margaret Dickson, his wife. 
He was a farmer; a merchant in 1896. He resided at Ox- 
bow from 1877 to 1897. He is a Presbyterian; a meml^er 
of Lodge 1492, 1. 0. 0. F., Oxbow. She is an Episcopalian. 
They have no children. 

1536. GEORGE JAY HINSDALE « (George' Ira" David' Jona- 

than' Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^, son of George Hinsdale 
and Harriet Hamlin, his wife, born at Rensselaer Falls, 
N. Y., June 10, 1857, married at Rensselaer Falls, June 
4, 1882, Eliza Helen McCormick, born at Canton, N. Y., 
June 12, 1862, daughter of Peter H. McCormick and Maria 
Garriety, his wife. He is a merchant, residing at Rens- 
selaer Falls; a Republican in politics and an Agnostic. 
He was postmaster of Rensselaer Falls, 1890-5, and is a 
member of Court Rensselaer No. 1454, Forresters. 

Children: 

2095. i. GEORGE HORACE, bom Dec. 31, 1882; died Jan. 1, 

1883. 

2096. ii. LIDA, bom and died Aug. 29, 1883. 

2097. iii. JENNY, born and died June 15, 1884. 

2098. iv. FLORENCE HARRIET, born July 19, 1886. 

2099. V. GLENN, bom Feb. 28, 1889; died Aug. 13, 1895. 

2100. vi. VERA, born June 11, 1891. 

2101. vii. IRA CHAUNCEY, born Mar. 23, 1894. 

1540. SARAH HINSDALE ' (David Schuyler' Ira« David' Jona- 
than* Isaac' Barnabas' Robert*), daughter of David Schuy- 
ler Hinsdale and Aim Juha Bostwick, his wife, born at 
Lisbon, N. Y., December 24, 1855, married at Theresa, 
N. Y., October 7, 1884, James H. McKown, who was born 
at Albany, N. Y., September 7, 1859, son of John Verner 
Henry McKown and Elizabeth Rider Meacham, his wife, 



408 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

and grandson of Judge James McKown of Albany, N. Y., 
and Susan Denniston, his wife. They Hve in Chicago, 111. 

1542. NICOL COOPER HINSDALE « (David Schuyler' Ira" 
David^ Jonathan* Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert'), son of David 
Schuyler Hinsdale and Ann Julia Bostwick, his wife, born 
at Oxbow, N. Y., April 9, 1868, married, first, at Gouver- 
neur, N. Y., August 20, 1889, Jennie Johnson, w^ho was 
born at Gouverneur, March 31, 1867, and died there Jan- 
uary 20, 1890, daughter of Charles and Betsey Johnson. 
He married, second, at Hammond, N. Y., October 20, 
1894, Frances Ortell Rattigan, who was born at Ther- 
esa, N. Y,, October 7, 1871, daughter of George Edward 
Rattigan and Helen M. Southwell, his wife. They reside 
at Oxbow, N. Y. 

Children, born at Oxbow, N. Y. : 

2102. 1 ROBERT JAMES, born June 21, 1896. 

2103. 2 HOWARD KAY, bom Aug. 10, 1903; died at Oxbow, 

Feb. 28, 1904. 

1546. HONORABLE DANIEL OLIVER MORTON » (Lucretia 
Parsons' Justin Parsons' Rebecca Sheldon^ Benjamin Shel- 
don* Mary Hinsdale' SamueP Robert^, son of Reverend 
Daniel Oliver iMorton and Lucretia Parsons, his wife, born 
at Shoreham, Vt., November 8, 1815, died at Toledo, 0., 
December 5, 1858. He married at Ohio City, O., Decem- 
ber 31, 1839, Elizabeth A. Tyler, who was born May 
2, 1817, and died September 25, 1873, daughter of B. F. 
Tyler. He was graduated with honor at Middlebury Col- 
lege, Vt., in the class of 1833, after which he entered upon 
the study of ,law in the office of Messrs. Payne & Wilson, 
at Cleveland, 0. On his admission to the bar, he removed 
to Toledo, 0., where he entered upon the practice of his 
profession, in which he early gained distinction and rose 
to eminence. He was appointed by President Pierce, 
United States Attorney for Ohio, and discharged the 
duties of the position for four years with ability and honor. 
He was one of the codifiers of the laws of Ohio under the 
new constitution. Attached from early life to the old 
Democratic party, at the approach of the troubles which 
culminated in the Civil War, he at once detached himself 



Robert Hinsdale — Ann Woodward 

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Samuel Hinsdale =Mehitabel Johnson 



Thomas Sheldon = Marv Hinsdale Obadiah Dickinson ^Mehitabel Hinsdale 

, 1 ■ I , 



Benjamin Sheldon — Mary Strong Nathaniel Frarv = Mehitabel Dickinson 

L ^^ ^ :_J 

Benjamin Parsons— Rebecca Sheldon Captain Nathan Frary — Elizabeth Barnard 



n I 

Reverend Justin Parsons = Electa Frarv 

L_ ^ 

Reverend Daniel Oliver Morton — Lucretia Parsons 

1. Daniel Oliver Morton 

2. Lucretia Parsons Morton 

3. Electa Frary Morton 

4. Hon. Levi Parsons Morton 

5. Mary Morton 
0, Martha Morton 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 409 

from those who would have yielded to the claims of the 
secessionists, and gave his influence to the support of the 
government, regardless of his previous party ties. His 
death, which occiu-red suddenly at Toledo, December 5, 
1858, was widely moiuned, and the bench, bar, and press 
of that day gave abundant testimonials of his high repute 
as a lawyer, citizen, and man. His fmieral was held De- 
cember 9, 1858, and his remains were interred in the ceme- 
tery at Toledo. 

Children, born at Toledo, 0.: 

2104. i. ELIZABETH TYLER, born May 6, 1842; died at To- 

ledo, Sept. 10, 1843. 

2105. ii. MARCUS FRED, bora Apr. 21, 1844; died Apr. 4, 1848. 

2106. ill. MARY E., bora Mar. 8, 1845; died Feb. 12, 1865. 

2107. iv. LEVI FRANK, bora Aug. 17, 1848; died Apr. 30, 1888; 

married Apr. 5, 1877, Minna Hedwig Weishaupt, born 
at Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 22, 1857, daughter of Johann 
Christian Friedrich Weishaupt and Wilhelmine Char- 
lotte Hackmann, his wife. 

2108. V. GEORGE DELOSSI, bom Nov. 13, 1850; died Aug. 23, 

1852. 

2109. vi. DE LENE LUCY, born Apr. 21, 1854; married at Grace 

Church, New York, by Rev. Henry C. Potter, D. D., 
Jan. 7, 1874, to Eraest Chaplin of London, England. 

2110. vii. DANIEL OLIVER, bom Jan. 23, 1857; died Dec. 6, 

1863. 

1547. liUCRETIA PARSONS MORTON « (Lucretia Parsons' Jus- 
tin Parsons" Rebecca Sheldon^ Benjamin Sheldon* Mary 
Hinsdale^ SamueP Robert^, daughter of Reverend Daniel 
Oliver Morton and Lucretia Parsons, his wife, born at 
Shoreham, Vt., January 20, 1817, died at Philadelphia, 
Pa., Jime 9, 1886. She married at Shawneetown, 111., 
September 7, 1842, Reverend IMyron Webb Safford, 
who was born at Cambridge, Vt., January 18, 1812, and 
died at Morganfield, Ky., December 10, 1862. He was 
son of Captain John Safford and Elizabeth Montague, his 
wife, and grandson of General Samuel Safford of Benning- 
ton, Vt., who served as Lieutenant-Colonel in the Re\^olu- 
tionary Army and Brigadier-General of the Vermont militia, 
and was for twenty-three years a member of the Gover- 
nor's Council, and for a quarter of a centiu-y Chief Judge 
of the Bennington County Court. 



410 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Mr. Safford was graduated at Middlebury College in 
1839, and studied theology at Andover Theological and 
Lane Seminaries. He was licensed to preach by the Pres- 
bytery of Cincinnati. He supplied destitute churches in 
Kentucky, and retiring from the active work of the min- 
istry, became the ruling elder of the Presbyterian Church 
at Evansville, Ind. His life was devoted to educational 
interests, particularly to raising the standard of schools, 
jiublic and private, throughout the Southern States. 

Children : 

2111. i. HENRY, born at Morganfield, Ky., Nov. 15, 1843; died 

there July 20, 1845. 

2112. ii. Infant son, born at Morganfield, June 13, 1846; died June 

15, 1846. 

2113. iii. LAURA ELIZABETH, born at Evansville, Ind., Oct. 

28, 1847; married at Philadelphia, Pa., June 1, 1886, 
John Wood Stewart, son of A. B. Stewart of New 
York City. 

2114. iv. MARY LUCRETIA, born at Evansville, Dec. 6, 1849; 

died there Aug. 16, 1851. 

2115. V, EDWIN MORTON, bom at Evansville, Dec. 20, 1851;. 

died Aug. 30, 1877. 

2116. vi. ANNE, born Dec. 6, 1857; died Apr. 10, 1862. 

1548. ELECTA FRARY MORTON^ (Lucretia Parsons' Justin 
Parsons" Rebecca Sheldon^ Benjamin Sheldon' Mary Hins- 
dale^ SamueP Robert^, daughter of Reverend Daniel 
Oliver Alorton and Lucretia Parsons, his wife, born at 
Shoreham, Vt., May 28, 1820, was married at Bristol, 
N. H., May 7, 1849, by her father, to Jonas Minot, a 
merchant of Brockport, N. Y., who was born at Sutton, 
N. H., September 17, 1812, and died at Clarkson, N. Y., 
October 27, 1891. She was his second wife. He was son 
of Captain James Minot, a Representative and Senator 
in the New Hampshire Legislature, and a descendant of 
Elder George Minot, the Emigrant, of Dorchester, Mass. 

Children, born at Clarkson, N. Y.: 

2117. i. ANNA B., bom Mar. 22, 1850. 

2118. ii. ELECTA MORTON, born July 23, 1851. 

2119. iii. JONAS, born June 18, 1853; married Josephine Hastings. 

2120. iv. DANIEL MORTON, born Dec. 5, 1855; married at 

Clarkson, N. Y., Oct. 26, 1888, Harriet A. Patterson. 

2121. V. MARY LUCRETIA, born Nov. 16. 1859. 




HON. LEVI PARSONS MORTON 
No. 1549 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 411 

1549. HONORABLE LEVI PARSONS MORTON « (Liicretia 
Parsons' Justin Parsons" Rebecca Sheldon^ Benjamin 
Sheldon^ Mary Hinsdale' SamueP Robert^, Vice-President 
of the United States (1888-1892), Governor of New York, 
and U. S. Minister to France, son of Reverend Daniel 
Oliver Morton and Liicretia Parsons, his wife, born at 
Shoreham, Vt., May 16, 1824, was married, first, at Flat- 
lands, Long Island, by the Rev. Charles Brickett Had- 
dock, D. D., October 15, 1856, to Lucy Kimball (No. 
985), born July 22, 1836, died July 11, 1871, daughter of 
Ehjah H. Kimball and his second wife, Sarah Wetmore 
Hinsdale, of Flatlands, L. I., N. Y. He married, second, 
February 12, 1873, Anna Livingston Read Street, born 
May 18, 1846, daughter of William Ingraham Street and 
Susan Kearney, his wife. Anna Livingston Read Street 
was the granddaughter of General RandaU S. Street and 
Cornelia Billings, his wife, who was the daughter of Major 
Andrew Billings, a distinguished Revolutionary officer, 
by his wife, Cornelia Livingston, daughter of James and 
Judith (Newcomb) Livingston. James Livingston was 
a son of Gilbert and Cornelia (Beekman) Livingston and 
grandson of Robert Livingston (1654-1728), first lord of 
the Manor of Livingston; member of the New York Col- 
onial Assembly, 1711, 1716-1725, and speaker of the same 
in 1718. He married in 1679, Alida, widow of the Rev. 
Nicholas Van Rensselaer and daughter of Captain Philip 
Pietersen Schuyler. Anna Livingston Read Street was 
also descended from Rev. Nicholas Street (son of Nich- 
olas Street, Jr., gentleman, and Susannah Gilbert, of Bridge- 
water, England), baptized at Bridgewater, January 29, 
1603, graduated at Oxford 1624-5; of Taunton, Mass., 
1637, and of New Haven, Conn., 1656; and from Rev. 
Samuel Street, graduated at Harvard, 1664, and forty- 
two years pastor of the church at Wallingford, Conn. 

From Lamb's Biographical Dictionary of the United 
States; Vol. V., p. 592 {with corrections): 

"Levi Parsons Morton, Vice-President of the United 
States, was born at Shoreham, Vt., May 16, 1824; son of 
the Rev. Daniel Oliver and Lucretia (Parsons) Morton; 
grandson of Livy and Hannah (Dailey) Morton; great- 



412 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

grandson of Ebenezer, Jr. and Sarah (Mrs. Cobb) Morton; 
great-great-grandson of Capt. Ebenezer and Mercy (Fos- 
ter) Morton; great-great-great-grandson of John, Jr. and 
Mary (Ring) Morton; and great-great-great-great-grand- 
son of the Hon. John and Lettice (Hanford) Morton of 
Middleboro, Mass. His first ancestor in America, George 
Morton (or IMoiirt), financial agent of the Plymouth col- 
ony, born in Yorkshire, England, 1585, married m 1612, 
Juliana, daughter of Alexander Carpenter; took passage 
in the ship Aime, which arrived in Plymouth, Mass., in 
June, 1623, and was the author of "Mourt's Relation" 
(1622), giving the earliest account of the Pilgrim enter- 
prise. His maternal ancestor, Joseph Parsons, was a 
cornet in a New England cavalry troop, and was the 
father of the first child born in Northampton, Mass. Levi 
Parsons Morton was educated at Shoreham academy; 
was employed m a country store at Enfield, Mass., 1838- 
40; taught school at Boscawen, N. H., 1840-41; was clerk 
in the general store of W. W. Ester brook, m Concord, 
N. H., and in 1842 was given charge of a branch store at 
Hanover. Upon the failure of Mr. Esterbrook, Morton 
became a clerk in the employ of Mr. Beebe of New York; 
and in 1845, on reaching his majority, bought out Beebe's 
interest and engaged in the business for himself. He re- 
moved to Boston, Mass., in 1849, to accept a partnership 
with Mr. Beebe in the dry goods busmess, and in 1854 
established the drygoods house of Morton & Grinnell, in 
New York City. The firm failed in 1861, and in 1862 
he estabhshed the banking and brokerage house of L. P. 
Morton & Co., with Charles W. McCune as partner, and 
when Mr. McCune withdrew in 1863, Mr. Morton estab- 
lished the London house of Morton, Burns & Co. In 
1868 George Bliss became a member of the New York 
house, the firm name being changed to Morton, Bliss & 
Co., and Sir John Rose entered the London house, which 
became Morton, Rose & Co., the Geneva award of 
$15,500,000 being paid through this house. The firm was 
also conspicuous for a large sale of New York Central 
stock belonging to Cornelius Vanderbilt, to English pur- 
chasers. The firm of Morton, Bliss & Co. headed the 
syndicate formed to fund the national debt m 1896, and 







==M,>^ii 







THE OLD MORTON HOUSE AT MIDDLEBORO', MASSACHUSETTS. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 413 

in 1899 went into voluntary liquidation, and was succeeded 
by the Morton Trust Company. Mr. Morton was a Re- 
publican representative in the 46th Congress, 1879-81; 
declined to accept the nomination for Vice-President 
from the RepubUcan National Convention in 1880; was 
appointed by President Garfield, United States Minister to 
France in 1881, having declined the position of Secretary 
of the Navy in his cabinet. He resigned the French mis- 
sion in 1885, and returned to New York. He was elected 
Vice-President of the United States on the RepubUcan 
ticket, with Benjamin Harrison for President, in 1888, 
serving 1889-93, but was not re-nominated in 1892. He 
was elected Governor of the State of New York in 1894 , 
defeating David B. Hill, the Democratic candidate, by a 
large pluraUty. While governor he signed the bill grant- 
ing the charter to Greater New York. Upon the close of 
his term in 1896 he retired from politics, and gave his en- 
tire time to his banking interests and to beautifying his 
estate, "Ellershe," at Rliinebeck-on-the-Hudson, where 
he also engaged in stock raising. He was twice married, 
jarst, in 1866, to Lucy Kimball, of Flatlands, L. I., N. Y., 
who died in 1871, and secondly, in 1873, to Anna Living- 
ston, daughter of WiUiam J. Street of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 
and they have five daughters. He became a member of 
several New York clubs, and of the Sons of the Revolution, 
and the Mayflower Descendants. The honorary degree 
of LL. D. was conferred on him by Dartmouth in 1881, 
and by Middlebury in 1882. In 1885 he gave a valuable 
piece of property to Dartmouth college on which to erect 
a memorial hall; and in 1885 he gave S10,000 to Middle- 
bury College on condition that an equal amomit of money 
should be raised, and the whole be used to found a pro- 
fessorship of modern languages." 
Children: 

By his second wife, Anna Livingston Read Street. 

2122. i. EDITH LIVINGSTON, born at Newport, R. I., June 20, 

1874. 

2123. ii. LENA KEARNEY, bom at Newport, May 20, 1875. 

2124. iii. HELEN STUYVESANT, bom at Newport, Aug. 2, 

1876. 

2125. iv. LEWIS PARSONS, bom at London, Eng., Sept. 21, 

1877. died there Jan. 10, 1878. 



414 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

2126. V. ALICE, bom at New York, N. Y., Mar. 23, 1879. 

2127. \a. MARY, bom at New York, June 11, 1881. 



1550. MARY MORTON" (Lucretia Parsons' Justin Parsons" 

Rebecca Sheldon* Benjamin Sheldon* Mary Hinsdale' Sam- 
ueP Roberto, daughter of Reverend Daniel Oliver Morton 
and Lucretia Parsons, his wife, born at Shoreham, Vt., 
May 5, 1829, was married at New York, N. Y., February 
27, 1856, by Rev. Dr. Adams, to Honorable William 
F. Grinnell, born in Greenfield, Mass., in 1831, son of 
Honorable George Grinnell of Greenfield and EUza Sey- 
mour Perkins, his wife, daughter of Reverend Nathaniel 
Perkins, D. D. He was for some years engaged in mer- 
cantile pursuits, being at one time, the partner of Hon- 
orable Levi Morton, in the firm of Morton & Grinnell. 
In 1877, he was appointed by President Hayes, Consul of 
the United States at St. Etienne, France, since which 
time he has been continuously in the consular service, 
holding office under five Presidents, and was in 1894, 
Consul at IManchester, Eng. 

Children : 

2128. i. WILLIAM MORTON, (Honorable), bora Feb. 28, 1857. 

2129. ii. MARY LUCRETIA, bom at New York, N. Y., June 23, 

1858; married at Bradford, Yorkshire, Eng., Jan., 1883, 
Edward H. Landon, son of Charles G. Landon of New 
York. 

2130. iii. RICHARD B., bom in England, Jan. 30, 1860; studied 

; banking in the house of Morton, Bliss & Co.; connected 
with the Manhattan Trust Company in 1894. 

2131. iv. ETHEL MORTON, bom at New York, Feb. 14, 1872. 

1551. MARTHA j\IORTON« (Lucretia Parsons' Justin Parsons* 

Rebecca Sheldon^ Benjamin Sheldon^ Mary Hinsdale^ 
SamueP Robert^, daughter of Reverend Daniel OUver 
Morton and Lucretia Parsons, his wife, born at Shoreham, 
Vt., May 5, 1829, was married at Bristol, N. H., August 
8, 1852, by Rev. Mr. Garland, to Reverend Alanson 
Hartpencb, who was born at Harrison, O., September 
23, 1823, and died at Philadelphia, Pa., March 5, 1870, 
son of James Bony Hartpence and Lucinda Riggs, his 
wife. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 415 

Children: 

2132. i. MARY LUCRETIA, bom Aug. 8, 1853; married Mahlon 

Day Sands. 

2133. ii. ALANSON MORTON, born at Milan, O., Apr. 22, 1855; 

died at New York, N. Y., Sept. 10, 1855. 

2134. iii. LUCY MORTON, bom Oct. 13, 1856; married Rever- 

end Francis Le Baron Robbins, D. D. 

2135. iv. MARTHA ELLA, born at Columbia, Tenn., Dec. 2, 

1859. 

] 552. EMILY HINSDALE ' (George Clark' Samuel" SamueP Sam- 
uel* Mehimian^ SamueP Robert^, daughter of George Clark 
Hmsdale and EHzabetli Baggs, his wife, born in Bureau 
Coimty, lU., March 21, 1835, married December 6, 1855, 
Eli Brooks of New York State. They removed from 
Bureau County, lU., to VHHsca, Iowa. They were hving 
in 1896 near ViUisca, and all of their children but one 
lived near them. They buried three children in infancy. 

Children : 

2136. i. FLORENCE ARVILLA, born Apr. 28, 1857; married 

John Wasson. 

2137. ii. GEORGE H., died in manhood; unmarried. 

2138. iii. EL VINA, died an infant. 

2139. iv. ALBERT ROSS, bom in Illinois, July 14, 1864; unmar- 

ried. 

2140. V. LIZZIE, died an infant. 

2141. vi. HIRAM WESLEY, bom in Illinois; married in Iowa, 

Clara Wilcox, and has one child, a boy; lives at Villisca, 
Iowa. 

2142. vii. ELECTA MARL4, bom in Illinois; married Charles 

Greenfield. 

2143. viii. CHESTER, bom in Iowa in 1882. 

1553. SMIUEL DEXTER HINSDALE « (George Clark' Samuel" 
SamueP SamueP ]\Iehuman^ SamueP Robert*), son of George 
Clark Hinsdale and Ehzabeth Baggs, his wife, born in 
Bureau County, 111., July 3, 1837, married, October 9, 
1860, Helen J. Pierce, born October 9, 1843, daughter 
of William Pierce of New York State and Nancy Wasson, 
his wife. They live near Onawa, Monona County, Iowa. 

Children: 

2144. i. NATH.AN NORVAL, bom in Bureau Co., HI., May 15, 

1862; married at Seattle, Wash., Sept. 26, 1889, Harriet 



416 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Vaughn of Billings, Mont.; they removed to Whatcom, 
Wash.; no children. 

2145. ii. MARG.^RET S., born in Bureau Co., lU., Jan. 26, 1864; 

unmarried. 

2146. iii. WILLIAJM PIERCE, bom July 12, 1866; married Lizzie 

Barnett. 

2147. iv. GEORGE D., bom in Monona Co., la., Jan. 21, 1869; 

married at Oakland, Ore., Aug. 23, 1896, Etta Houser; 
no children. 

2148. V. ADDISON O., bom Aug. 13, 1871; married Anna Guan- 

eUa. 

2149. \'i. JOHN T., bom in Monona Co., la., Sept. 9. 1876. 

2150. vii. JEAN M., (a boy), bom in Monona Co., la., Nov. 14, 

1878. 

2151. viii. HENRY CORSE, bom in Monona Co., la.. July 1, 1883; 

called on Sanford C. Hinsdale, at Denver, Colo., June 
26, 1902. 

1555. MARY ELIZABETH HINSDALE" (George Clark' Sam- 
uel* Samuel^ Samuel Mehuman^ SamueP Robert'), daugh- 
ter of George Clark Hinsdale and Elizabeth Baggs, his 
wife, born in. Bureau County, lU., November 15, 1842, 
and died in Weld County, Colo., November 22, 1877. She 
married, Jime 29, 1861, Nicholas Wells Baker of 
Ohio. All of this family now live in Colorado. 

Children: 

2152. i. CHARLES NATHAN, bom in Illinois; married Gussie 

mug. 

2153. ii. FANNY EVELINE, bom in Illinois; married Walter 

Ennes. 

2154. iii. LIZZIE MAY, born in Illinois; married Charles Prussel. 
|2155. iv. ANNIE E., bom in Illinois; died young. 

'2156. V. CORA BELLE, born in Weld Co., Colo., Feb. 1, 1876; 
unmarried. 

1557. SARAH REBECCA HINSDALE » (George Clark^ Samuel" 
SamueP Samuel^ Mehuman' SamueP Robert'), daughter 
of George Clark Hinsdale and EUzabeth Baggs, his wife, 
born July 9, 1848, married in Bm-eau Comity, 111., Decem- 
ber 25, 1866, John W. Coddington of West Bm-eau To^\^l- 
ship, Bureau Coimty, 111., formerly of Maryland. 

Children, born in West Bm-eau Township, Bm-eau County, 
111.; unmarried and living near Pruiceton, lU.: 

2157. i. W. NATHAN, bom Apr. 17, 1871. 

2158. ii. NELLIE A., born Dec. 9, 1872. 
21.59. iii. FRANK H., bom Sept. 2, 1883. 




SAMUEL BUKRITT HINSDALE 
No. 1563 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 417 

1558. JULIA SOPHIA HINSDALE « (George Clark' Samuel' 
SamiieP Samuel* Mehuman^ SamueP Robert'), daughter 
of George Clark Hinsdale and Elizabeth Baggs, his wife, 
born January 27, 1852, married in Bureau County, 111., 
January 27, 1869, George W. McPherson of Indiana. 

Children, born in Dickinson and Rice Counties, Kan., and 
now living at Princeton, 111.: 

2160. i. MINNIE M., bom Sept. 20, 1871; married John M. Green. 

2161. ii. ELLA L., bom Nov. 30, 1873; married, Oct. 10, 1894, 

Marshal Thomas of Bureau County, 111.; no children. 

2162. iii. JASON A., bom Feb. 11, 1876; unmarried. 

2163. iv. AARON C, bom Feb. 11, 1878; unmarried. 

2164. V. CHARLES W., bom Mar. 7, 1880; unmarried. 

1563. SA^JUEL BURRITT HINSDALE « (Samuel Dexter' Sam- 
ueP SamueP SamueP Mehuman' SamueP Robert^, son of 
Samuel Dexter Hinsdale and his first wife, Jemima Carpen- 
ter, born at Princeton 111., March 27, 1847, died at Wood- 
bridge, N. J., December 27, 1903. He married June 26, 
1873, Julia E. Nash of Princeton, who was born October 
13, 1849. They lived at Woodbridge, N. J. He was a 
soldier in the War of the RebeUion, in the 139th and 151st 
Regiments of Illinois Infantry Volunteers. 

Mr. Hinsdale took a very great interest in everything 
pertaining to this genealogy, and the Hon. S. C. Hinsdale in 
a letter to the Editor says: "He always showed me the 
greatest kindness in seconding my efforts to find data for 
the work, and to him we owe the discovery of the account 
of the French branch of the Family. Too much praise can- 
not be awarded him for much good work." 

From the Daily Union, Atlantic City, N. J. , June 12, 1897: 

"The Union is indebted to Comrade S. B. Hinsdale of 
Post 85, Woodbridge, official stenographer of the depart- 
ment of New Jersey, G. A. R., for courtesies extended the 
past few days. Mr. Hinsdale has been official reporter for 
12 years. It never seemed labor for him to do a favor, and 
we take pleasure in thus publicly recognizing his many 
attentions." 

From The Daily Home News, New Brunswick, N. J.^ 
December 28, 1903: 

"S. B. Hinsdale, of Woodbridge, the court stenographer 
of Middlesex and Monmouth counties, passed away last 



418 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

evening at his home at Woodbridge after a short iUness. 
Death was due to jineumonia. Mr. Hinsdale was here last 
Monday and while at court suffered a congestive chill. He 
was compelled to retire to his home. He tried to ward off 
an attack of pneimionia, but was not successful. The 
annoimcement of his death here this morning was a great 
shock to all who knew him, 

'' Mr. Hinsdale was one of the best knowTi stenographers 
in the country. He has been the official reporter in manj^ 
of the cases of national interest, including the Lexow and 
Mazet investigations. He has acted as interpreter in all 
sorts of cases, from the j^olice courts m New York to the 
United States inquiries. 

" His long experience in this class of work, w^here he saw 
men and women of all character, and heard recitals of all 
of the phases of life, did not harden him, but rather created 
in him a tender, sympathetic natiu-e, which showed itself 
plamly. He was an officer of the Society for the Preven- 
tion of Cruelty to Animals and as such did good work in 
his locality. 

" He was one of the most mfiuential men of the G. A. R. 
of Woodbridge and was a past commander of the post there. 

" Besides his court work, he was associated with a promi- 
nent firm of stenographers of New York, engaged in miscel- 
laneous work. 

"A wife and two children survive Mr. Hinsdale." 

From the Perth Amhoy News, December 29, 1903: 

''The funeral of S. B. Hinsdale will be held from the 
Congregational Church, Woodbridge, at 2 o'clock Thursday 
afternoon. 

" The sorrow and regret caused by the news of Mr. Hins- 
dale's death extended far beyond the cominimity in which 
he lived. Tlirough his connection with the Grand Army, 
and as official stenographer in the com-ts of Middlesex and 
Monmouth counties, he was well knowTi throughout the 
State. Few citizens of New Jersey have been more useful. 
Few could be more sincerely mourned. 

" Mr. Hmsdale was born in Princeton, 111., March 27, 1847. 
Though only fourteen years old when the civil war broke 
out he was on fire with enthusiasm for the Union cause. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 419 

He tried to enlist immediately, but was rejected on account 
of his youth. He tried again at the age of seventeen, answer- 
ing Lincohi's call for 100-day men. His youth was still an 
obstacle but finally, through the help of friends, he was 
mustered into Company A., 139th Illinois Volunteers, on 
May 16, 1864. He was in active service for six months 
mstead of 100 days. After two more unsuccessful efforts he 
re-enlisted on Februarj^ 16, 1865, with the rank of corporal 
in Company H., 171st Regiment Illuiois Volimteers. His 
regiment was ordered south and assigned to the second 
separate division of the army of Cumberland under General 
Thomas. He was with the host that followed Sherman's 
army in the march through Georgia. His record is a year 
and a half of active service, durmg which time he was 
never woimded, or otherwise unfitted for duty, though his 
health suffered severely ever afterward from exposure and 
stram. 

" Mr. Hinsdale was mustered mto the G. A. R. January 
25, 1886, and has since held many important offices, and 
officiated on more than one memorable occasion. At the 
time of his death he was aid-de-camp of the National En- 
campment, and adjutant of William H. Berry Post, of 
Woodbridge. 

" After the war Mr. Hinsdale completed his education at 
the College of Notre Dame, Indiana. He was married in 
1873 to Miss Julia Elizabeth Nash, of Princeton, Illinois. 
He started in Chicago at his profession as one of the pioneer 
stenographers of the coimtry. In 1876 he came to live in 
Woodbridge, going daily to New York, where he had 
offices, and where most of his court work was done at that 
time. Since then he has transferred his activities to the 
New Jersey coiuts, though he stiU kept headquarters in 
New York. He was counted one of the finest stenogi'aphers 
in the country, and was depended on in coiut for his judg- 
ment and broad intelligence no less than for his skill. 
February 20, 1900, he was appointed Supreme Com't Ex- 
aminer for the State of New Jersey. 

" Mr. Hinsdale was a man to whom every generous and 
high emotion was as natural as the breath of life. He gave 
help but never asked it. He was reserved about his owm 
business, but listened freely to the troubles of others. 



420 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

giving in countless instances, advice that was worth more 
than gold. He laid down his hfe for his country as truly 
as if he had died on the battlefield, for he carried to his 
grave, in a broken constitution, the effect of those terrible 
days of privation and hardship." 

News Shocks the Court. 

"Upon the openmg of court this mornmg, Willard P. 
Voorhees announced the death of Mr. Hinsdale. He said 
that he first commenced as stenographer under Judge 
Scudder and that he had served under Chief Jastice Beasley, 
Justice Collins and Justice Fort. He said that he thought 
such public announcement should be made. 

" ' This statement is a great shock to the Court,' said 
Justice Fort. ' I had no idea that Mr. Hinsdale was so ill. 
It was only on Friday last that I received a letter from him 
in his own hand, in which he said he was threatened \vith 
pneumonia, but hoped to escape it. 

" ' His death points the force of the moral that we are 
not sure of life ; that we are hable to be taken at any time . 

" ' Mr. Hinsdale was very modest, not at all given to show 
or ostentation. He was a true man in every sense of the 
term, and the whole bar of Middlesex and Monmouth I 
know, held him in the highest esteem. 

" ' He was one of the best narrative reporters and ste- 
nographers in the country and had a large experience, 

" 'He served his country with great faithfulness and zeal 
and was highly esteemed by his comrades. I know it from 
them, not from him. 

" ' The Coiu"t is'grieved at hisjdeath and I know that Judge 
Collins will be. When I came to this circuit my pre- 
decessor said that he had but one request to make 
of me. "I wish you to retahi Hinsdale," he said. 
"He is one of the nicest fellows and best stenographers 
that I know of." 

"The Court made an order that a minute be made 
on the court records of Mr. Hinsdale's faithful service." 

The following excerpts from letters written by Mr. Hins- 
dale contain very much interest to all of the members of 
the Hinsdale family: 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 421 

WooDBRiDGE, N. J. April 10th, 1897. 

'' Mr. S. C. Hinsdale, 
"My dear Friend: 

" I think I have solved the riddle. At all events, I have 
a theory. A man with a theory is always a crank, therefore 
for the present I am a crank. 

" Having the complete record that we have of our family, 
back to Robert, coming to Dedham, Mass., in 1630 some- 
thing, I endeavored, by referring to a large number of Ameri- 
can and English books, to find from what part of England 
Robert came. Among others, I examined a large EngUsh 
book supposed to contain the names of all the emigrants 
from England to the American Colonies from 1600 to 1700, 
but did not find the name of Hinsdale, but I found the 
names of a number of people whom I afterwards find living 
in Dedham, Hadley and Deer fie Id, as coming from Ipswich, 
England, and I therefore concluded that Robert also came 
from that part of the country. 

" Having always been led to beheve that our ancestors 
came from England and partly at yoiu" suggestion, but more 
particularly to gratify myself, I thought I would see if I 
could find a Hinsdale coat of arms, and in that way, find 
the locality from which they came. 

" I think the Astor Ubrary contains all the books on Her- 
aldry, Armorial Insignia, County FamiUes, Landed Gentry 
and different landed proprietors, that are pubhshed in 
England. At least, I counted over 125 books and then 
gave it up. I examined, practically, all of them, but found 
nothing approaching our name and I was about giving up 
in disgust, to think that our family must have existed 
somewhere for hundreds of years and not to have been 
able to acquire enough land to have their name appear 
in the pubhshed records. I had put on my overcoat and 
was about to leave, when I remembered in one of Mrs. 
Truax' letters to me that she had mentioned some lady 
friend of hers who had seen a Hinsdale coat of arms in 
Paris. As a matter of curiosity, I thought I would look 
at the French records of nobility. In the very first book, 
I found a de Hinnisdael, the spelling of which indicated a 
Belgian or Holland extraction. The only reference, how- 
ever, was in connection with other names, as beiag allied 



422 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

to the ancient family of Thennes. That was something 
— I took off my overcoat — but not much. I then 
examined several books with no result. Finally I found 
one in which a de Hinnisdal was made a Count in 1723, 
with a C. of A. That was a httle better, but unless I got 
back further than that, I did not care for it. 1 then found 
a work consisting of 22 volumes about 16 by 18 inches in 
size, containmg about 300 pages each, beautifully bomid in 
red morocco. In the first volume I found what satisfied 
me, but I wanted a good translation of it and the next day 
I took a translator to the library and had him dictate to me 
a translation, wliich is as follows: ***** 

"Now for my theory. Here was a Hinsdale family 
extending back to 1170 — it certainly had a long existence 
before that. I found that the Hinsdale who was created 
Compt in 1723 and his family lived in the Provinces of 
Somme and Artoise, which is now the Province of Gales, 
both on the English Channel, while the country of Liege 
now belongs to Belgium, bordering on Germany and very 
near the birth-place of protestantism. \A'hat more natural 
than that some of the Hmsdales should become protestants 
and during the religious wars and the persecution of the 
Huguenots, which commenced about 1558 and lasted about 
100 years, than that one or more of them, from church or 
family persecution, should have fled to England where 
freedom of worship was allowed. They may have been and 
probably were some of the poorer members of the family, 
certainly they could not take much property with them, 
but they went to England and remamed there one, two or 
thi'ee generations, long enough to become English thinking 
people and to Anglicise the name just a little, but not long 
enough to become landed proprietors; under the circum- 
stances it would hardly be possible to have become such; 
they were undoubtedly poor and finally, one Robert con- 
cluded to try his fortunes in America, and what more 
natural than that he should come to that part of America 
where his English friends were — Boston and Dedham. 

" To believe that the family existed for hmidreds of years 
in England without acquiring land to a limited extent, 
enough to entitle their names to appear in the records as 
owners of land, is to admit that they were the very com- 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 423 

monest kind of stock-servants. If that was the case, I do 
not believe that Robert woukl have been allowed or would 
have been able to have immediately taken the prominent 
part that he did, little though it was, in the church and 
town organizations of Dedham, Medfield and Deer field, and 
the fact that he and his sons and all their descendants 
became prosperous and leading citizens, wherever they 
were or are, and somewhat above the average, w^ould 
indicate a higher heredity than that of servants; there 
would have been some lapses downward. 

" Now I have a keystone to my theory which I intend to 
find this summer if possible. Abigail Hmsdale in her will, 
gives to the chiu-ch at Hinsdale, N. H., 'My great Silver 
Tankard with Hmsdale Coat of Arms.' Another one gives 
' a silver cup with coat of arms of Hinsdale family engraved 
upon it,' to some one else. So here we have certainly a C. 
of A. of some description brought to this comitry by 
Robert. Now, if that C. of A. can be found, and it has 
three ravens upon it, that would concliLsively settle the 
matter, that the English Hmsdales came from the French 
HLnsdales and cherished and preserved the Hmsdale coat 
of arms, as part of their inheritance and brought it wdth 
them to America. 

" I find an ancient and numerous family of Hmsdales in 
France, part of them hving in the Provinces of Somme and 
Gales, only 21 miles from England and part of them living 
in Liege, fifty miles fm'ther inland, right on the borders of 
protestantism, while the family was cathohc, for I find 
numerous mention of convent life m the 40 pages referred 
to. I find a French C. of A. I do not find the Hinsdale 
name mentioned in the EngUsh books, no G. of A., yet I 
find a protestant Robert Hinsdale, the same name that 
I find twice m the French family in a brief history of it, 
with a G. of A. I tliink my argument is almost conclusive. 

" While I hate England like an Irishman and hate an 
Irishman more than I do England, yet I have always had a 
great admiration for England; she has been the world's 
civiHzer and I always thought that I came from a long 
Enghsh ancestry and it has been hard for me to give it up, 
but I guess we are French Walloons. 

" I believe thus far, the Hinsdales in this democratic 



424 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

countr}' have not troubled themselves about a coat of 
arms. Personally, all the coat of arms that I want, is 
my little Grand Army button, but possibly this knowledge 
may be of benefit in the future to my daughters and others. 

"I have learned recently more about coats of arms than 
any good American ought to know, but in my searches — 
one thing has led to another — I was led into an examina- 
tion of the Belgium books and there I found oiu" name a 
number of times as being allied to this or that family. I 
examined the German Wappenbuchs, but foimd nothing 
there, and in trying to learn the meaning and significance 
of the different devices upon different C. of A., the 
quarterings, etc., I was led from one thing to another 
during the days I spent there, until it became perfectly 
bewildering. It seems as if I had seen a million of them, 
and now, when I think of a coat of arms, I have presented 
to my vision, mentally, one of those brilliantly colored 
reversible revolving magic lantern wheels, only instead of 
the geometrical figures we are accustomed to see. I see 
every possible and impossible beast with tails and tongues 
twisted in every impossible way and shape possible — it is 
enough to give one the d. t's. 

" I began this letter by saying, for the present, I was a 
crank. I think I have proved it, by writing this long 
letter about something which ought not to concern us the 
least little bit, but I am unloadmg it upon some one else 
and I will soon resume my normal condition. 

"I will try and have a photo of the C. of A. made this 
summer. I think the above information will be surprising 
to the Hinsdales as it becomes known, if not interesting. 

"Yours, etc., and still an American, 

" S. B. Hinsdale." 

Woodbridge, N. J., July l^th, 1897. 

" Dear Cousin Hinsdale: 

" Yours of June 26th was received and read with pleasure. 
We are having very warm weather here ; I only wish I could 
be with you, in your gambols aroimd the snow-capped 
Rockies. However, I Uke fire-cracker weather, better than 
snow-ball weather. 

" I send you at last, a couple of poor photographs. I will 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 425 

send some better ones in a few days. My daughter and I 
tried to photograph the pictures, but failed. I then took 
a regular photographer with his camera to the Library and 
have two good negatives from which these are printed, but 
my daughter is doing the printing and her soHo paper I 
think is poor and she will have some fresh in a day or two." 

***** "The coat of arms in the series of the 
22 Vols, has not the * Supports,' although the description 
calls for them, as you will see by the translation I sent you, 
so I did not take the photo of that, but took it from the 11 
Vol. series, that has the 40 pages. I am now ready to begin 
on the translation, if I can do it without too great a cost. I 
will see about it this coming week." ***** 

"I think since I last wrote you, I have examined over 60 
Vols, of parish records. I did not expect to find anything, 
because they were records of parishes in London and im- 
mediate vicinity, but I did not know but what I might strike 
something and I did not want to leave anything that 
was within my reach. 

Since I have been looking into this thing, I have learned 
by my searches and also by talking with others, that there 
were hundreds if not thousands of French refugees who fled 
to England after 1550, and then after 1620 came to the 
colonies as English colonists; and they were English; they 
had Uved long enough in England, from one to three gener- 
ations, to become thoroughly English in thought and 
manners. I have one positive case. You take the Stebbins 
family in the Deerfield book; my great grandmother was a 
Stebbins and you will see that they came from Ipswich and 
previously from France ; why should not Robert's father or 
grandfather have followed the same stream from France to 
England and then to this country. Stebbms' name appears 
in the English record of emigrants to Mass., in the book in 
which Robert's name does not appear, for some reason. 
The more I think of it and read and talk, the more con- 
vinced I am that I am right, and there is nothing at all 
strange or strained or unnatural in it. There was a stream 
of protestant refugees from France to England and the 
Hinsdales floated along with the stream. 

"Last month I was in Philadelphia, and I caUed on Dr. 
Guy Hinsdale and spent three very pleasant hours with the 



426 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

family. He was not at home when I arrived, but his wife 
received me very cordially. She and her sister, younger 
than she, are Scotch and they are very pleasant company. 
After he came in I had a very pleasant chat with them. I 
took supper with them and he showed me his chart of the 
family that he has made; it is really a remarkable work; 
he had it drawn on two large sheets, newspaper size, of 
cardboard. They have a little daughter with the Scotch 
name 'Jean.' I told them they had gone back to our 
original ancestry for a name, for Jean is French for John, 
and that is where the Scotch name came from, when Scot- 
land and France were so nearly allied. Mrs, H. laughed and 
claimed it was a purely Scotch name." ***** 

"I expect to go to Greenfield sometime this month, but 
I do not expect to find anything new. I am going on a 
little visit, but if I can hunt out anything, I will do so. I 
want to see old j\Ir. Sheldon and see if he can not put me on 
the track of something. 

"I will write again soon about the translation. 

" Yours etc., 
" S. B. Hinsdale." 

Woodbridge, N. J., July 21st, 1897. 

"Dear Cousin Hinsdale: 

"I received your last letter too late to follow its mstruc- 
tions, but can do so later if you desire it. Mr. H. has 
been very anxious that I should use as an interpreter or 
translator, a man in his office. I did not think he could do 
the work satisfactorily and told both of them so, but they 
seemed to think otherwise and so I took him to the Library 
the other day and he dictated the translation to me in not 
a very satisfactory manner. I went again the next day 
and went all over it myself so as to get the dates and spelling 
of the different names and I send you the result. It is 
good enough for you to determine whether you want a more 
perfect translation. Of course this would not do at all for 
official use or for publication. But for my part, I see but 
very little in it that is of any use or special interest to us, 
further than the fact showing the antiquity of the family; 
there is no special act to be proud of and nothmg to show 
that any one of them became a protestant and went to 



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England. I do not know just what your plan is in reference 
to publishing a portion or all of it, but if it is your desire 
to have an accurate translation, let me know, and some 
time during the summer I will get one for you. I think 
the former translation that I sent you contains the sum 
and substance of the whole thing. And that, I imagine, was 
the purpose of that work, to give a brief summary for 
general use, of the French Nobility. The title of that book, 
the translation from which you already have, is 'Institut 
Heraldique le Nobiliaire Universel ou Recueil General des 
Genealogies Historiques et Veridiques des Maisons Nobles 
de L'Europe.' By M. Le Vicomte de Magny. The general 
title is 'Nobiliare Universal, by Magny.' There are 22 
vols, of that work gotten up for show as weU, being large 
square books with large coarse print and contams a short 
sketch of the different houses. For details and particulars, 
it refers to, 'Archives Genealogiques et Historiques de la 
Noblesse de France' by M. Laine, consisting of 11 vols. 

"What I now send you is not complete; the whole thing 
will make about three pages more than I send you, but it is 
of the same general nature as that which I do send, but 
part of it was in Latin and part in old French and he could 
not translate it readily, but sufficiently to tell what it was 
about. Where it speaks of 1000 pomids bemg loaned to 
the Emperor, there were about two pages m reference to 
that. 

''You could refer to the page of the Vol. very well, as the 
history of each family is paged by itself; there is no con- 
tinuous paging in the book. 

"You can judge by this, whether you want it exact; if so 
do not hesitate to let me know and I will take my former 
translator and have him dictate it to me." * * * * 
"That would include the continuation of the record down 
to the end of the Fumal branch or rather to so far as the 
publication goes, 1808. I guess it is later than that; I am 
not sure. I did not want to go any further with the man I 
had and we had passed the time when Robert had come to 
this country and therefore the record had but httle interest 
for me, but I could see that it would be a Uttle more inter- 
esting story, I think, to a general reader, as there are more 
army transactions. 



428 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

"I stopped at this point and took the 10:20 train to N. Y., 
and have just returned. On the boat I met Mr. H. and 
he asked me how we got along with the translation and I 
told him exactly what I thought about it and that I thought 
I should try it again next month with another translator, and 
I will do that, but send you this in the meantime." * * 

"On the 9th of August, I will be in the Court of Special 
Sessions for one month, while the regular stenographer is 
on his vacation ; diu-ing that time, I will sit by the side of 
Judge H. and see that he dispenses justice. 

"Yours, 

"S. B. Hinsdale." 

"While this record does not corroborate my theory about 
Robert, yet it does not destroy it. This certainly does not 
give a history or record of all the Hinnisdals that were in 
existence. On page 3, you see that Robert is mentioned 
there as being perhaps a brother to Gautier; if so, the 
record of one branch only of the family is given. On page 
8, it states that Henri had a son, but no fm-ther mention 
is made. On page 12, Robert became the head of the house 
and had a son Herman whom, it is stated, died without 
posterity. He may have become protestant; it was about 
the right time and he was disinherited and his record ended 
up in that way. He may have had a son and named him 
after his father. On p. 13, Robert (another one), is stated 
not to have married. If he had become protestant and 
married, they would not have so stated, not considering 
it a marriage. He may have had a son and named him 
after himself or his grandfather — you can speculate on it." 

Woodbridge, N. J., August 9th, 1897. 

"Dear Cousin Hinsdale: 

" I returned Saturday from my New England trip. I had 
a very pleasant trip and have seen lots of old people and 
old things, but get no trace of the 'silver tankard' or coat 
of arms. At Hinsdale, N. H., I saw the old church with 
the figures over the door, 1763. I called on the minister 
and got the names of the oldest parishoners and visited 
them; among others, a Mrs. Jones, a very mtelligent old 
lady, the granddaughter of the first minister of the church, 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 429 

Rev. Mr. Gay, but none of them could give me any infor- 
mation. I was rather disappointed with Mrs. Jones; I 
thought she might remember something if any one would, 
being so intimately connected with the church, but she had 
never even heard of the tankard. The minister told me 
that a lady from N. J. had written to him about the matter 
some time ago; I take it that it was Miss Cornelia, of whom 
you speak and to whom I will send a photo as you re- 
quested. Sometime I will go down and see her. I met 
many prominent men while there; a Dr. Leonard, who 
seems to be the antiquarian of the place and I was treated 
as well as almost as if I had been old Col. Ebenezer, come 
back for a visit; it was soon known all over the street that 
a Hinsdale was in the place and I had three invitations to 
stay all night and if I had, I think I would have had a regu- 
lar reception. I was urged to remain and see Mr. Ami- 
down, the owner of the Amidown Woolen Mills, but I did 
not have the time and Dr. Leonard possessed aU the infor- 
mation that Mr. Amidown did on that subject. One gentle- 
man that I called on dropped his work and got his horses 
and carriage and took me everywhere I wanted to go. He 
took me to the old cemetery where Ebenezer is buried; a 
deserted place now; in the midst of a cultivated field are 
two or three hundred graves, all grown up in brush and 
bramble, no fence or care given to it. I spoke_^to Dr. 
Leonard about it afterwards, and suggested that the town 
ought to remove the remains to the modern cemetery near 
the town. He said he would not be in favor of that, but 
would suggest to the town committee to have the old ceme- 
tery put in shape, with a fence around it and kept in shape. 
He thought it would be sacrilegious to remove the remains, 
after lying there so long. There is a large flat stone on the 
ground and above that, a very large, thick, heavy flat stone 
supported on four rough hewn stone pillars. The inscrip- 
tion is almost entirely obliterated, being so exposed|to the 
elements. 

" At Greenfield, I called on Mr. Sheldon and spent a very 
pleasant hour. I called in the afternoon but he was not in. 
I left word that I would call at nine the next day. I was 
shown in the parlor and presently I heard him coming 
down stairs, and as he appeared in the doorway, there stood 



430 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

before me a very patriarch of old. He is a large, tall man 
with a good head of white hair, a beard that came down to 
his waist, silky and snow white ; he had on a loose dressing 
gown coming down to his ankles, and on his feet were 
slippers with huge silver buckles. He greeted me 
very cordially. He is an interesting and entertaming 
talker; also an entertaining hstener. He could not add to 
our information in reference to the coat of arms, but he 
thought my theory was a correct one, and was very much 
interested in it and I gave him a photo and he will be on 
the lookout for a tradition in reference to it. So will Dr. 
Leonard of Hinsdale. Mr. S. when I showed him the signa- 
ture of Robert, said he had one also and we compared them. 
He gave me the sheet on which appears his name. I send 
it to you. It is not of much consequence. The original 
of it I saw in the Memorial HaU at Deerfield the next day. 
You can see, however, the signatiu-e is about the same, 
although ours is 20 years earlier. Underneath that are 
the signatures of Samuel and Experience. 

"To go back to Hinsdale, N. H., I send you the ^Manual 
which will account in some manner for the lost tankard, as 
you will see on the second page; the organization only goes 
back to 1832. I forgot to say that I visited the to\^^l clerk 
and was sent to his house and his wife showed me the old 
town records. I do not loiow whether Sheldon ever saw 
it or not, but suppose he must have; I forgot to ask him. 
I there found a large book bovmd in rawhide, on the title 
page of which is the following: 'The gift of Abigail 
Hinsdale to the town of Hinsdale, July 12th 1763. This 
book to be kept as a book of records for said toA\Ti.' I 
found that Ebenezer was elected clerk of the first meeting 
and he was afterwards moderator. I looked carefully to 
see if Abigail had not sketched the coat of arms in the 
book somewhere, but thoughtful as she seemed to be, she 
did not think of that. If she had only made a rough 
sketch what a lot of trouble it would have saved. 

" I will now get to work on the translation as soon as I 
can; I will get it out sometime between now and the 
middle of September. 

"Yours fraternally, 

"S.B.Hinsdale." 



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Woodbridge, N. J., Sept. 2d, 1897. 

"Dear Cousin Hinsdale: 

" I send you the long promised translation and also a - 
revelation, as you will see before finishing this letter. This 
has been a very slow work; it was slow translating, for 
much of it was in old French ; the first translator could not 
do much with some of it, as you will see the portion I sent 
you is much less than this, as furnished by my translator. 
Then in order to save the time of the translator, I went to 
the Library alone afterwards and went over the text, line 
by line with my notes, so as to get the spelling right and it 
was very slow work. I have been working on it some every 
day, for over three weeks. 

There are some portions of it that do not seem to me very 
clear, but it can not be helped ; I think the fault is largely 
owing to the carelessness and ignorance of the writers keep- 
ing the original records. Both translators were much 
bothered as to the language used sometimes in reference 
to the dispositions of the fiefs; it was hard to understand 
just w^hat the writers meant, but the present translation is 
about right and will answer all pm-poses, I guess. The 
fiefs, with their constant changing and making homage for 
them and one thing and another seemed to have given them 
all a good deal of trouble, as well as this late descendant. 
Then again, it has been very slow work getting it out; I do 
not do much on the typewriter myself; I generally dictate, 
but in this matter I could not dictate to my advantage. 

"I have looked through a series of ten or twelve books 
'La Belgique Heraldique;' in nearly every book, I find 
many references to the family and I thought I might dis- 
cover a convert or the departure of one of the family from 
some Dutch port for the colonies or to England, but the 
only reference is as to family alliances. 

"The article* that appeared in the Springfield Republican 
was written by Dr. Leonard, of Hinsdale, N. H., unbeknown 
to me. The article was copied in the Boston Transcript, 
in the Keene Sentinel and the Vermont Phoenix; I don't 
know but others; those have been sent me by various 
parties. I wrote as nice a letter to the doctor as I could, 

*This article and another referred to later on will be found imme- 
diately following these letters. 



432 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

thanking him for it and stated that the article if an}i:hing 
would 'bring to the surface the silver cup and perhaps a 
tradition in reference to the tankard.' And sure enough, 
it did — that is the revelation. While the letter still lay 
on my table, I received a letter from ]\Iiss M. J. Marshall of 
Weston, Mass., stating that she had read the article in the 
Boston Transcript, and that she held the cup or silver mug 
'which was given by Uncle and Aunt Hinsdale to their 
niece Miss Abigail Williams, who was a daughter of the Rev. 
John Williams of Deerfield, carried away by the Indians 
and who married Rev. Samuel Woodward of Weston. She 
was my great-grandmother and the mug or goblet de- 
scended to me in 1876. The coat of arms engraved upon 
it has no ravens, but a stag in the middle of a wreath with 
a stag's head above the wreath.' Well, it was quite a 
shock, for part of my theory went to smash, but when 
one is dealing with theories, one must take results as they 
develop. However, I rallied from the shock and still exist 
but it does not shake my belief in the French origin of the 
family. We have got to admit that, or acloiowledge that 
we have no ancestry in England, if they came from there, 
worth mentionmg; that they were the very commonest 
kind of people, for there is no record of them outside of a 
parish record, if even such exists. It is true, that Robert 
may have come from some Dutch or French port, but in 
that case it does not seem possible that he could have taken 
the position he did in an English colony, where he seems 
to have been selected to deal with figiues and accoimts and 
laying out of roads, whereas had he been a French or Ger- 
man, even though he spoke English, they would naturally 
have selected an English speaking man, a man born in 
England, for such work; a foreigner would have hardly 
been able to do it. I have looked at all the Canadian books 
which give the names of all the French settlers in Canada be- 
fore 1600 — from some time m 1500 do^\^l past 1630 and there 
is no such name. I don't tliink he came from Canada. 

" My idea now is — another theory — in reference to the 
coat of arms of Col. H., that he was aware of the family coat 
of arms but was independent and thought that he would 
have none of the old world's coat of arms, but devise one of 
his own — an American production was good enough for 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 433 

him. It was certainly a very unusual thing for anyone to 
do, to originate a coat of arms in this coimtry; it was not 
customary for the pioneers and early settlers to do such a 
thing, and to my mind it rather indicates that he was fa- 
miliar with the thought, with the knowledge that his family 
had been entitled to a coat of arms and so he would have 
one of his own. At all events, I have succeeded in finding 
the cup that has eluded others for so many years — it 
rather deluded me. I have written to ask if there was any 
motto in connection with the device or if she could give 
any explanation as to how it came into the possession of 
Abigail but have had no reply. The cup was given to 
Sarah Williams. Miss Marshall has the facts a little wrong, 
but it probably passed from Sarah to her sister Abigail, I 
think there is no doubt but that it is the cup. 

"In the same letter to Dr. Leonard, I added another, of 
the discovery. He seems to be very much interested in the 
matter, for last night I received another letter from him, 
stating that he had written another article to the Spring- 
field Republican in reference to the recovery of the cup and 
I suppose that wiU go the same rounds. I will send you 
one, when I get some of the papers. He has also written 
about the removal of the remains of the Hooker family in 
the plot where Col. Ebenezer is. If that is done, it seems 
to me that the whole place will soon disappear, for the 
bm-ying groimd is on the old Hooker homestead. I will 
send you his two letters so you may see just what he says, 
I will tell him that I have sent them to you. Perhaps it 
would be weU for you to wTite him as the representative of 
the family, thanking him for the interest he has taken in 
the matter and stating that as there seems to be a general 
disposition to remove the old remains to the new biu"ying 
ground, there would be no objection from the family in 
removing Col. Ebenezer, and his wife's remains, if the town 
desired to do so, I think the town ought to do it if any- 
body does, I went to the new cemetery to see what it was 
like and it would be a much better place if it could be re- 
moved, if the old stones should be replaced — that is, if 
they are going to abandon the old place. If they would 
put an iron fence aroimd the present graves and leave them 
there, it would do very well. 



434 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

"I didn't think I was going to make such a stir and so 
much trouble by simply going to Hinsdale and asking a few 
questions and having a chat with the doctor; if I had, I 
would not have gone. I don't know that I like so much 
notoriety; I have had all those papers sent to me from 
different parts of New England by my friends, and other 
people have written me as to their relationship." * * * 

"I guess I have said about all that is necessary and I 
think this will be about the last time I will have to write 
so much. I should think you would be tired and sick of 
the letters that you must receive, mine among the rest. 

"Yours fraternally, 

"S. B. Hinsdale." 

Woodbridge, N. J., October 3d, 1897. 
"Dear Cousin Hinsdale: 

* * * "Now as to the coat of arms on the ]\Iarshall 
cup, or 'cann' as it is called; I don't think it is a coat of 
arms at all ; it may have been so designated by Col. Ebenezer, 
but to be a coat of arms, according to the laws of heraldry, 
it should be on a shield and the shield have certain divisions 
and there should be a motto. Of coiu-se there were no 
laws of heraldry in this country and any one could devise 
anything he pleased and in that sense it may be called a 
coat of arms. If it was intended, then I come back to my 
theory, that he would not have gotten it up as such, unless 
he had been familiar with the idea that his grandfather 
was entitled to one, and he may have been aware of the 
fact that his not very distant ancestors had been disinher- 
ited because of their religion and that he would have 
nothing to do with the old family coat of arms. It is all 
speculation, however," * * * "but I care 
nothing about the coat of arms, because I still believe that 
we came from the French, only at present we cannot strike 
the connecting link. Other French refugees went to 
England and afterwards to the Colonies; why not refugees 
by the name Hinnisdal as well, when we know there was 
a large family of that name in France. 

" Both Miss Marshall and Mr. Sheldon say this cup is not 
the one referred to in the will, but a weddmg present and 
I send you Sheldon's letter to me about it, which you need 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 435 

not return. I guess they are right about that, but 
nevertheless, I think it knocks out my first theory, that I 
would find a similar coat of arms, for I think the design 
on the other cup and on the tankard would be found to be 
the same as on this cup. Miss Marshall has sent me a 
couple of photographs of it, as she had them made for you. 
I am glad to see them; it is a very pretty design or 
ornamentation, whatever it may be called. I have sugges- 
ted to her, as Mr. Sheldon requested, that she put the cup 
eventually in the Hall at Deerfield," * * * 

" Fraternally yours, 

" S. B. Hinsdale." 

Woodbridge, N. J., October 16th, 1897. 

"Dear Cousin Hinsdale: 

* * * "I quite agree with you in reference to the 
Marshall cup, that possibly the engraving is a mere orna- 
mentation; I had thought about that a good deal; that the 
wreath might have been on the cup as an ornamentation, in 
which to place the purchaser's name or the one to whom 
it was to be given and that Col. H. placed in it and above it, 
the stags." * * * * * 

"The above questions that I have asked you are of no 
immediate importance, so do not put yourself out, but 
write when you have plenty of spare time, if such a thing 
ever occurs. I have had so much writing to do even in the 
little that I have done, that I can not bear to increase your 
labors, for your correspondence in this matter must be 
something immense; I know just enough about it to know 
that. I am very glad, however, always to get your letters 
and if at any time I can be of assistance to you, let me know 
and if possible, I will help you out to the best of my ability. 

" Fraternally yours, 

" S. B. Hinsdale." 

From Springfield (Mass.) Republican, August 15, 1897: 

"Hmsdale, N. H. 
"Samuel B. Hinsdale of Woodbridge, N. J., a steno- 
grapher who does business in New York, visited the town 
recently in quest of information concerning his ancestor. 
Col. Ebenezer Hinsdale, the founder of the town. Mr. 



436 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

EQnsdale is well up in the genealogy of the Hinsdale family, 
and has proofs that it had its origin in France, not in Eng- 
land, as was generally supposed, but entered England later. 
He exhibited a fac-simile of the Hinsdale coat-of-arms, 
which has emblazoned upon it three ravens, and he is in 
search of an old relic which ought to be found in Hinsdale, 
with which to compare it. 

" It appears that Mrs. Ebenezer Hinsdale, who surxdved 
her husband, left by will her great silver tankard with the 
Hinsdale coat-of-arms engraved thereon to the First Con- 
gregational church, the date of whose organization is 1763. 
What became of this tankard is a mystery. The church 
records prior to 1821, are lost, and no one hving can be 
foimd who has ever seen or has any knowledge of it, though 
there is a floating tradition that a great many years ago the 
church being sorely in need of funds and not realizing the 
future historic value of this old rehc, sold the tankard and 
it probably went into the hands of the silversmiths. In 
the same will there is mention made of a silver cup bearing 
the coat-of-arms, bequeathed to some member of the Hins- 
dale family, and even this cannot be found. What Mr. 
Hinsdale greatly desires is to compare his fac-simile of the 
Hinsdale coat-of-arms with the engraving upon the tankard 
and the cup and see if they are identical. 

" The burial place or Col. and Mrs. Hinsdale and other 
'rude forefathers of the hamlet,' is uncared for and neg- 
lected. The plot of ground where they He is in a secluded 
spot nearly a mile from the village and it is understood that 
the land belongs to the town forever with a right of way. 
The present Mr. Hinsdale would prefer that the bones of 
his ancestors should rest where they are if the descendants 
or the town will bestow proper care upon the lot and rescue 
it from obhvion, otherwise he would offer no objection to 
their removal to Pine Grove cemetery with the proviso that 
the ancient tombstones shall be set up precisely as before 
and the inscriptions recut and rendered legible." 

From Springfield Republican, August 29, 1897: 

"Hinsdale, N. H. 
"A recent brief sketch in The Sunday Republican con- 
cerning the Hinsdale family and a long-missing silver cup 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 437 

and tankard mentioned in Mrs. Abigail Hinsdale's will bore 
fruit speedily. The article met the eye of a Miss Marshall 
of Weston, Mass., a descendant, and she immediately 
wrote to S. B. Hinsdale of Woodbridge, N. J., saying in 
substance that the silver cup with the Hinsdale coat of 
arms was in her possession, that it was given to her in 1876 
with the legend that it was originally bequeathed to Abigail 
Williams, a granddaughter of Rev. John Wilhams of Deer- 
field, 'the redeemed captive.' Mrs. Hinsdale was his 
daughter; she was twice married after the death of the 
Colonel, her last husband being Ebenezer Silhman of Fair- 
field, Ct., whom she survived. Madam Silhman's will 
bequeaths the silver cup to her niece, Sarah Williams, not 
Abigail, but Sarah and Abigail were sisters. Sarah was 
married and became a widow early, and may have made 
over the cup to her sister. There is another curious circum- 
stance. The old world coat of arms, of which S. B. Hins- 
dale has a fac-simile, displays three ravens upon a scroU, 
with Latin motto and other embellishments, while the coat 
of arms engraved upon the cup in Miss Marshall's custody 
is a stag surrounded with a wreath and surmpunted by a 
stag's head. There can be no doubt that the cup in Miss 
Marshall's possession is genuine, and it is not at all unUkely 
that Col. Hinsdale thought best to ignore the old world 
heraldry and improvised a coat of arms befitting a pioneer 
in a new country. At all events, the silver cup, which has 
been vainly searched for by different branches of the family 
for years, has been brought to light through the medium 
of The Repubhcan, and now where is 'the great silver 
tankard?' 

"In support of the theory that the Hinsdales are of French 
origin, S. B. Hinsdale has recently caused to be translated 
40 pages in the 'Archives de la Noblesse' and finds parts 
of it both quaint and interesting as a record of the 'de 
Hinnisdale,' or 'Hinisdales;' the name is spelled both ways. 
We learn that along in A. D. 1500, or from about A. D. 1490 
to A. D. 1600, Robert de Hinisdale was a common family 
name. It was a Robert who came to Dedham between 
A. D. 1630-40 and was one of eight men who founded a 
church there in A. D. 1638. In the same period other 
French refugees came there after having Uved in England, 



438 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

and what is more natural than that the Hinsdale converts 
should have followed along in the stream of refugees, first 
to England and afterward to America?" 

Children : 

2165. i. BERTHA, bom Feb. 7, 1877. 

2166. ii. EDITH GRACE, bom Mar. 28, 1879. 

1565. CHARLOTTE GRACE HINSDALE' (Samuel Dexter' 
SamueP SamueP Samuel Mehuman^ Samuel- Robert'), 
daughter of Samuel Dexter Hinsdale, and his first wife, Jemi- 
ma Carpenter, born at Princeton, 111., September 9, 1850, 
died November 1, 1885. She married, February 12, 1873, 
W. I. Bates, of Princeton, formerly of Cummington, Mass. 
They had no children. 

1568. LYMAN K. HINSDALE « (Samuel Dexter' Samuel « SamueP 
Samuel Mehuman^ SamueP RobertO , son of Samuel Dexter 
Hinsdale and his second wife, Susan, born at Princeton, 
111., January 23, 1859, married December 23, 1886, Minnie 
M. Lytton of Redruth, Comity Cornwall, England. 

Children : 

2167. i. GEORGE L., bom Aug. 26, 1892; died Aug. 27, 1892. 

2168. ii. BERENICE LYTTON, bora at Harvey, 111., July 26, 1894. 

1579. ALICE A. HINSDALE' (Elisha J.« Elisha' Elisha" Jacob^ 

Jacob* Barnabas^ Barnabas'* Robert'), daughter of EHsha J. 
Hinsdale and Ehzabeth Dolph, his wife, born at Akron, 
O., August 9, 1851, married, December 26, 1867, Thomas 
Randolph. They are living near Adrian, Mich. 

Children : 

2169. i. LE ELLA. 

2170. ii. CARRIE. 

1580. AUGUSTUS E. HINSDALE' (Elisha J.« Ehsha' Elisha' 

Jacob' Jacob* Barnabas' Barnabas' Robert'), son of Elisha 
J. Hinsdale and Elizabeth Dolph, his wife, born in Michigan, 
May 10, 1854, married, December 1, 1879, S.\rah A. Stew- 
art. They are living on the old homestead near Adrian, 
Mich. 

Children: 

2171. i. BURT, bom Sept, 20, 1881; died March 16, 1883. 

2172. ii. CORA E., bom Aug. 6, 1883. 



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2173. iii. VICTOR A., born Mar. 19, 1885; died Mar. 2, 1886. 

2174. iv. ALBERTA, bom Dec. 13, 1887. 

2175. V. RAY, bom May 12, 1889. 

2176. vi. STEWART, bom Oct. 15, 1891. 

2177. vii. VERNON A., bom Dec. 29, 1894. 

2178. viii. ALICE M., bom Aug. 11, 1897. 

2179. ix. MABEL C, bom July 20, 1901. 

1590. AMOS CHARLES HINSDALE* (Daniel C.« Charles Chaun, 
cey' Erastus' Ezra^ Jacob* Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert') . 
son of Daniel C. Hinsdale and Jennie Holmes, his wife, 
born November 5, 1874, married at Oakland, Cal., December 
25, 1898, Florence Chase Morrow. 

Children : 

2180. i. CATHERINE MAY, bom July 21, 1899. (Prematurely). 

2181. ii. HELEN HOLMES, bom Dec. 21, 1902. 

2182. iii. CORINE, bom Aug. 1, 1904. 

1603. NANCY WARREN* (Henrietta Sperry Hinsdale^ Isaac 

Orsanus' Isaac' Ezra* Jacob* Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert'), 
daughter of Seth William Warren and Henrietta Sperry 
Hinsdale, his wife, born at Buffalo, N. Y., December 6, 
1870, married at Buffalo,. October 19, 1898, Edward 
Carrington Bull of Buffalo, where they now reside. 

Children : 

2183. i. EDWARD CARRINGTON, bom at Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 

20, 1899. 

2184. ii. EMILY WARREN, bom Mar. 26, 1902. 

1604. LUANNA M. HINSDALE* (Augustus Mason« Isaac Orsa- 

nus' Isaac* Ezra^ Jacob^ Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert^, 
daughter of Sergeant Augustus Mason Hinsdale and Mar- 
tissa L. Kinley, his wife, born at Newton, la., July 4, 1866, 
married at Denver, Colo., March 2, 1892, Charles Ford of 
Denver. They now reside at Chicago, 111. 

Child: 

2185. i. HINSDALE, bom at Chicago, 111., Nov. 22, 1893. 

1605. FREDERIKA HINSDALE* (Augustus Mason^ Isaac Orsa- 

nus^ Isaac' Ezra" Jacob* Barnabas' Barnabas^ Robert^, 
daughter of Sergeant^ Augustus Mason Hinsdale and Mar- 
tissa L. Kinley, his wife, born at Newton, la., February 11, 



440 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

1872, married at Denver, Colo., November 6, 1895, William 
H, Wadley of Denver, born January 17, 1864, at Brookline, 
Mass. He was educated in the Boston schools. Remov- 
ing in the fall of 1886 to Colorado he engaged in the sheep 
business for two years. He studied law (one year at the 
University of Michigan) and was admitted to the Colorado 
bar, April, 1891. He was admitted to partnership with 
Ralph Talbot and John H. Denison, January L 1896, under 
the firm name of Talbot, Denison and Wadley, of Denver, 
Colo. He was elected Grand Chancellor of Knights of 
Pythias of Domain of Colorado for year 1904-1905. 

Child: 

2186. i. FREDERICK HINSDALE, born at Denver, Colo., Nov. 

13, 1899. 

1606. BESSIE HINSDALE ' (Charles Mason« Isaac Orsanus^ Isaac « 
Ezra^ Jacob^ Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert^), daughter of 
Charles Mason Hinsdale and Eva Vaughan, his wife, born 
at Newton, la., July 2, 1877, married there, October 30, 
1901, Vester H. Morgan. 

Children: 

2187. i. CHARLES HINSDALE, bom Dec. 20, 1902. 

2188. ii. JOHN AUGUSTUS, bom Aug. 31, 1904. 

1619. MARGARET HINSDALE' (John Wetmore^ Samuel John- 
ston' John" Theodore^ John* Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert'), 
daughter of Colonel John Wetmore Hinsdale and Allen 
Devereux, his wife, born at Raleigh, N. C, November 24, 
1872, married there, October 28, 1896, John Gotten En- 
gelhard, born at Wilmington, N. C, July 14, 1869, son of 
Joseph Adolphus Engelhard and Margaret Gotten, his wife. 
He is a tobacconist, residing at Owensboro, Ky. They are 
Episcopahans, 

Child: 

2189. i. JOSEPH ADOLPHUS, bom at Owensboro, Ky., Oct. 15, 

1S98. 

2190. ii. ELLEN DEVEREUX, born Feb. 26, 1902. 

1625. CAPTAIN SAMUEL HINSDALE MACRAE' (Frances 
Broadfoot Hinsdale* Samuel Johnston' John* Theodore" 
John* Barnabas^ Barnabas' Robert'), son of Major James 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 441 

Cameron MacRae and Frances Broadfoot Hinsdale, his 
wife, bom at Fayetteville, N. C, August 4, 1868, married, 
first, at Bedford, Va,, December 12, 1890, Evelyn Bell 
Clayton, who died Jime 13, 1892, daughter of Robert B. 
Clayton of Bedford City, Va., and Mary Bell, his wife. He 
married, second, October 16, 1899, May Marceline Broad- 
foot. He was Captain and Adjutant of 2nd North Caro- 
lina Vohmteers in the Spanish-American War. He is a 
lawyer by profession, and an Episcopalian. He resides at 
Fayetteville. 

Child: 

By his first wife, Evelyn Bell Clayton. 

2191. i. ALFRED EVELYN CLAYTON, bom Dec. 1, 1891. 

1626. ELIZABETH MACRAE* (Frances Broadfoot Hinsdale* 
Samuel Johnston' John^ Theodore^ John^ Barnabas^ Barna- 
bas^ Robert'), daughter of Major James Cameron MacRae 
and Frances Broadfoot Hinsdale, his wife, born at Fayette- 
ville, N. C, April 30, 1870, married, September 17, 1890, 
Edmund Jones Lilly, a bank officer, residing at Fayette- 
ville. 

Children : 

2192. i. ALICE ROSE, bom May 3, 1892; died June 19, 1893. 

2193. ii. FRANCES HINSDALE, bom May 21, 1893. 

2194. iii. EDMUND JONES, bom May 30, 1894. 

1639. ANNA JULIA BRIDGMAN* (Caroline Hart Andrews* 
Alfred Andrews' Roxana Hinsdale^ Elijah^ John* Barnabas^ 
Barnabas^ Robert*), daughter of Elisha Burt Bridgman and 
Caroline Hart Andrews, his wife, born at Belchertown, 
Mass., July 9, 1857, married at Middlefield, Conn., June 6, 
1891, James Lyman, born at Middlefield, September 1, 1862, 
son of David Lyman and Catherme Ehzabeth Hart, his 
wife. Mrs. Lyman was a teacher before marriage; Direc- 
tor of Physical Culture in Rockford College, Rockford, 111., 
1886-90, and Director of Physical Culture at Vassar College 
1890-1. Mr. Lyman is a graduate of Yale University with 
degree Ph. B., and Cornell University with degrees M. E. 
and M. M. E. He is an Electrical Engmeer. They re- 
sided at Middlefield until 1895; Schenectady, N. Y., until 
September, 1899; Chicago, 111., in 1900; and since then 



442 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

have made their home in Evanston, 111. They are Congre- 
gationalists, and Mr. Lyman is Deacon in the First Congre- 
gational Chiu-ch of Evanston. He is a republican in poli- 
tics. He is Engineer of the Western District of the General 
Electric Company and is considered one of the most com- 
petent men in his field. He is a member of the American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers; American Institute of 
Electrical Engineers; American Electro Chemical Society; 
American Society for Advancement of Science; and the 
Union League Club of Chicago. He is a member of the 
Congregational Club of Chicago; Director Chicago City 
Missionary Society; is a Sunday School teacher, and his 
influence in chiu'ch and social life has been widely felt 
wherever he has located. 

Child: 

2195. i. OLIVER BRIDGMAN, born at Middlefield, Conn., Aug. 

23, 1892. 

164L WALTER SYDNEY SMITH » (Eliza Shipman Andrews^ 
Alfred Andrews' Roxana Hinsdale* Elijah^ John* Barnabas^ 
Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Sydney Smith and Eliza Ship- 
man Andrews, his wife, was born September 7, 1851, at 
Plain ville, Conn. He removed with his father to Leaven- 
worth, Kan., and together with his father was engaged in 
the book and stationery business in that city. He married 
at Mishawaka, Ind., November 21, 1883, Ida Sandilands, 
daughter of Charles Sandilands who was the son of Richard 
Sandilands and Margaret Cox of Edinburgh, Scotland, and 
Armilda Quigg, his wife, who was the daughter of Henry 
Quigg and Amanda Ireland. Mrs. Ida Smith died on Janu- 
ary 31, 1887, at Niles, Mich., and was buried in Mishawaka, 
Ind. She was a devoted Christian character and every one 
who knew her loved her. Walter S. Smith now (1905) re- 
sides in Niles, Mich., with his mother and sister. He is, 
and has been for the past five years, Supervisor of the 
third ward of Niles, and is by profession a nurse. 

Child: 

2196. i. RALPH WALTER, bom at Niles, Mich., Jan. 31, 1887; 

now resides at Mishawaka, Ind. 

1645. ALFRED BURRITT ANDREWS' (Edwm Norton An- 
drews* Alfred Andrews' Roxana Hinsdale" Elijah' John* 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 443 

Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Reverend Edwin 
Norton Andrews and Mary Eliza Black, his wife, born at 
Chicago, 111., November 26, 1871, was educated at Beloit 
College, Beloit, Wis. Leaving this institution before he 
completed his course he entered an insurance office in 
Chicago, and from that went into architectural work. He 
was draughtsman and superintendent for several leading 
architectural firms of Chicago and was granted a license to 
practice as an architect in the State. He did not take much 
advantage of this, however, and in 1901 joined Frederick 
Bulley in a co-partnership under the firm name of BuUey 
& Andrews, contractors, and embarked in the building 
business. At this time he has a well established business 
in Chicago of high standing and has erected many well- 
known buildings in different parts of this country. 'On 
June 9, 1901, he married Jane E. Van Etten of St. Paid, 
daughter of Isaac Van Etten, a prominent lawyer and poli- 
tician, and a descendant of the weU-lcnown Van Etten 
family of New York, and Jane Oakes, his wife, Mrs. An- 
drews is a woman of broad culture, having studied music 
and art at her home in New York City. Later she spent 
several years in London and Paris under the world's 
masters. She is wddely traveled and is an accomphshed 
linguist. 

1646. ETHEL DOLE ANDREWS' (Edwin Norton Andrews^ 
Alfred Andrews' Roxana Hinsdale' Elijah^ John* Barnabas^ 
Barnabas^ Robert'), daughter of Reverend Edwin Norton 
Andrews and Mary EHza Berry , his wife, born at Crystal 
Lake, Wis., January 13, 1875, was educated at Rockford 
Seminary, Rockford, 111. She devoted special attention 
to voice culture, and finishing her course in Rockford, took 
a post-graduate course in Boston, Mass. She then held the 
position of instructor in singing at the Woman's Presby- 
terian CoUege at Coliunbia, So. Car. She was married at 
the home of her imcle, Mr A. H. Andrews, Lombard, 111., 
on Thanksgiving, November 29, 1900, by her father. Rev. 
E. N, Andrews, to Doctor Robert Waller Gibbes of 
Columbia, So. Car., a weU-known physician, and a leader 
in his profession in the State, son of Col. James Guigard 
Gibbes, a prominent civil engineer and politician, and 



444 HINSDAI.E GENEALOGY 

Rhoda Elizabeth Waller, his wife. Dr. Gibbes is surgeon for 
several railroads and corporations, and his private practice 
is extremely large. He has a pleasing personality which 
has contributed to his popularity in the medical profession. 
No physician in South Carolina has a wider reputation or 
been more successful in his practice, which is quite remark- 
able for so young a man. Mrs. Gibbes is an accomplished 
musician. Her voice has a depth, tone, and charm, that 
thrills her hearers, rich and sympathetic. She is also a 
sparkling conversationalist and correspondent, and has a 
sweet, unassuming personahty that attracts every one to 
her. 

1649. BERTHA MATSON ANDREWS ' (Alfred Hmsdale Andrews' 
Alfred Andrews' Roxana Hinsdale' Elijah^ John* Barnabas' 
Barnabas^ Robert'), daughter of Alfred Hinsdale Andrews 
and Ella Cornelia Matson, liis wife, born at Chicago, 111., 
Jime 8, 1874, was married, at Lombard, 111., by her uncle. 
Reverend Charles Caverno, D. D., LL. D., July 29, 1903, 
to Arthur Tenney Holbrook, S. B., M. D., of Milwaukee, 
Wis., son of Doctor Arthur Holbrook of Milwaukee and 
Josephine Tenney, his wife. i\Irs. Holbrook was educated 
at Rockford Seminary, Rockford, 111., and Colorado Col- 
lege, Colorado Springs, Colo. She is a graduate of the 
Chicago Ivindergarten College, and was Idndergarten 
instructor in the Chicago schools while taking her course at 
the college. Upon her graduation she accepted a position 
as assistant instructor in the kindergarten course at the 
State Normal School at Los Angeles, Cal., assisting Miss 
Florence Lawson. This position she filled for two years, 
resigning to take charge of the Kindergarten department 
at the Colorado State Normal School at Greeley, Colo., 
where she remained for three years and a half doing very 
creditable work. She was elected President of the Colo- 
rado Kindergarten Association. Mrs. Holbrook has a great 
deal of musical talent, is an excellent accompanist, and has 
a sweet, sympathetic voice. Her musical proficiency has 
aided her materially in her kindergarten work. She also 
possesses considerable dramatic and literary abihty. She 
has a charming personality, which endears her to hosts of 
friends wherever she goes. Dr. Holbrook is a graduate of 




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HINSDALE GENEAI.OGY 445 

Harvard College, 1892, and of Rush Medical College, 1895, 
at Chicago, lU., graduating at the head of his class at the 
latter institution. He is now a practicing physician in 
Milwaukee, Wis., located in the Goldsmith Building. Dr. 
Holbrook is President of the Harvard Club there, and 
member of a number of social and medical societies. He 
is a popular and rising physician, and for a young man has 
one of the finest practices in his part of the state. 

Children : 

i. Daughter, born Oct. 18, 1904; died Oct. 22, 1904. 
2197. ii. ARTHUR ANDREWS, born Feb. 19, 1906. 

1650. HERBERT CORNELIUS ANDREWS' (Alfred Hmsdale 
Andrews^ Alfred Andrews' Roxana Hinsdale^ Elijah' John* 
Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Alfred Hinsdale 
Andrews and Ella Cornelia Matson, his wife, born at Chicago, 
111., March 19, 1883, died at Chicago, May 31, 1905. His 
home for the past two years was in Pasadena, California, 
where he went for his health. His studio was in Los 
Angeles, and it was there that his reputation was estab- 
lished as an authority on genealogy and heraldry. He 
was the compiler of this genealogy, the manuscript of which 
was practically completed at the time of his decease. 

Although only twenty-two years of age at the time of 
his death, Herbert Cornelius Andrews has left a peculiarly 
definite impression; not only for a strong, keen, sweet 
personality, but from his careful, exhaustive genealogical 
research work. Even as a child he was far from robust and 
as the years passed, there were always physical limitations 
to work against. He cared little for sports, but was ab- 
sorbed in his studies, his music and his diversions. These 
diversions varied as he grew to manhood, but always he 
had some intense interest: first, a collection of about 2,000 
portraits of authors, the lives of whom he knew by heart. 
Then he mastered stenography and typewriting; later he 
took a course in a School of Advertising and another of 
Scientific Salesmanship, and for a time he studied designing. 
These pursuits were all carried on while he was attending 
High School and College. He was graduated from the High 
School at Oak Park, Illinois, in 1898, with high honors, at 
the age of sixteen, and later attended the Chicago Uni- 



446 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

versity, and Colorado College, Colorado Springs. While 
at Colorado College he studied Harmony under Reuben 
Goldmark, and showed marked ability in musical compo- 
sition. He expressed more of the tenderness, beauty and 
strength of his life through his improvisation at the piano, 
than thi'ough any other medium, and his touch was a rare 
one. All these former avocations, while of little purpose 
in themselves, were a valuable preparation for that which 
he made the vocation of his later life, his genealogical 
work. Always serious in piu-pose he was one of the most 
witty, sprightly and charming of companions. 

After a year at Colorado College his health was so broken 
that he was obliged to give up all further thought of school, 
and for two years devoted himself to what was most difficult 
for him, an outdoor life. He spent a year quite alone at 
Flagstaff, Arizona, which was a bitter one to him. His 
family did not know how hard it was, for he kept his suffer- 
ings and disappointments from them. After he passed 
away, among his papers was found a veritable lamentation, 
written at that time, showing his despondency over his 
health, and fearing that his ambitions could not be 
realized. 

A change at last was absolutely necessary, and after a 
few months at Pasadena, California, his health was so much 
improved that he became anxious for definite occupation, 
and so entered the business house of Messrs. C. F. Weber 
& Co., the Los Angeles agents of the A. H. Andrews 
Company of Chicago. He proved himself to have good 
business ability and was promoted rapidly during the year 
spent with this firm. 

But his heart was elsewhere, and when at last the oppor- 
tunity came to devote his entire time to ancestral study, 
which for five or six years had crowded each otherwise 
unemployed moment, the alternative of accepting a fine 
position in San Francisco, with the main branch of the 
business firm, had no attraction for him. And, so, finally, 
the young man of not yet twenty-one, found what for years 
he had been yearing for, apparently better health and 
entirely congenial work. 

His artistic studio was the only one west of Chicago 
devoted exclusively to genealogical research and heraldic 




HERBERT CORNELIUS ANDREWS 
No. 1650 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 447 

designing, and Herbert Andrews was undoubtedly one of 
the youngest members of the profession in the world. 

He was elected a member of the Society of Colonial 
Wars, the "Old Northwest" Genealogical Society, and the 
New England Historic Genealogical Society. He was also 
invited to become a member of the Sons of the American 
Revolution, the Mayflower Society, the Harleian Society, 
and other patriotic and antiquarian organizations. 

He was engaged to lecture on Heraldry before some of 
the leading clubs of Cahfornia, and people interested in 
genealogy from all over the country consulted him as an 
authority, among his genealogical clients being many 
prominent people in all parts of the United States. That 
he came naturally by his great love for genealogical research 
is plainly seen when it is considered that he was the grand- 
son of Alfred Andrews of New Britian, Conn., who spent 
so many years in like work, the fruits of whose labors have 
been given to us in the "Andrews Memorial," "Hart 
Genealogy" and "Genealogy and Ecclesiastical History — 
First Church, New Britain." 

At the time of his last illness (the spring of 1905) he was 
at work on the Rindge Genealogy for Mr. Frederick C. 
Rindge of Los Angeles, and he kept at the dearly beloved 
manuscript days after he should have laid it down, so 
eagerly did he hold on to his Ufe work. 

His family records were absolutely unique from an anti- 
quarian and artistic standpoint, and if, in less than a year 
his work was recognized as imusual, what fruit might we 
not have expected had he been spared to the world beyond 
the blossoming stage of life ! 

Funeral services conducted by Dr. Gunsaulus of Chicago 
were held at the home of his parents in Lombard, 111, on 
Jime 2, 1905, and his body was laid to rest in the cemetery 
at that place. 

The following are extracts from Dr. Gunsaulus' remarks 
at the funeral services : 

"It is entirely in harmony with the traditions of this dear 
family, whose sorrows we all bear in our hearts to-day, 
that we should revert to the words which have been so often 
spoken in the chUdhood of this dear boy; the first words 



448 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

that I ever heard him speak in a Httle class of other children, 
when they were reciting the beautiful twenty-third Psalm, 
'The Lord is my shepherd.' 

"Then I remember another time, on the same street 
where the little children played together (many of whose 
sympathies are with those who mourn to-day), with the 
larger outlook upon life, with the same broad faith in God, 
when we tried to make at the Sunday School a picture of 
the growing religion for the growing children, and these 
w^ere some of the words from the twenty-second chapter of 
Revelations : — ' And he showed me a pure river of water 
of life, pure as crystal, proceeding out of t he throne of God 
and of the Lamb.' * * * * 'And there 
shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither 
light of the sun, for the Lord God giveth them light; and 
they shall reign forever and ever.' 

' ' I shall never forget the day when there came upon my 
mind, with something of its full force and persuasion the 
vision of the fact that 'Jesus died a young man.' I shall 
never forget how my mind was impressed with the truth 
that there never was a better young man. Then T put by 
the side of it that other truth, the world never needed him 
as it needed him apparently on the day when he died, at 
only three and thirty years of age. A planet all wrong; 
great gashes of sorrow and pain needing to be healed, and 
He the Great Physician. Doubts deep as abysses between 
awful mountam ranges, and He the Light that might dispel 
them. A w^orld already touched and flooded with a stray 
beam of sunshine and He not arisen to His meridian of 
splendor, 'The Son of Righteousness.' Then I came to 
the conclusion for the first time in my life that God's plans, 
God's methods and God's purposes included a far greater 
range of experiences and investments than time. 

"It must be that in God's great things He needs the 
young. It must be that swifter feet rather than age, may 
have the place, that higher ideas, more alert intelligence, 
that belongs to youth, are demanded by the movements of 
the Almighty elsewhere. There must be a reason why 
Jesus left this world at three and thirty years of age. Why 
did He not grow into the fullness of physical and intellectual 
vigor, and to have all the experience of age? Why, my 



HINSD.iI.E GENEALOGY 449 

friends, this is only a small circle of experiences. This is 
inside of vaster circles and we are standing in the presence 
of God's great lessons, and we are reverently and lovingly 
to look into the mighty eye that tearlessly saw the Son of 
God die on this earth a young man. 

' ' This boy of ours whom we have known has entered into 
the great plan of the Infuiite. He had much of God, in 
that he had deepest sympathies, mental independence, and 
positive rectitude of moral and intellectual fervor, to press 
forward from the very beginning of mental life. There 
was not as much for this boy on this earth as there could 
have been for others. There was not as much for Keats; 
not as much for Raphael; not as much for John Siunmer- 
field, and not as much for Robert Louis Stevenson. There 
are higher roadways that must be trodden by those whose 
lives are lives celestial. Here the artist, here the dreamer, 
here the orator or teacher of the celestial will find himself at 
home. Herbert loved the research mto family traditions, 
and inspiration came to him in the line of heraldry, until it 
became a fine art with this boy. He loved all that gave the 
institutions of the home and rights of the family a dignity. 
Is there not some intimation in this that he has found the 
Fatherhood of God, and that those broad waves of research, 
unknown to us, are to him as clear as crystal. Dear friends, 
I have stood by the side of the grave of youth, and I cease 
to feel that it is a place for tears and tears alone. I know 
that if my God has such a plan for this world that He takes 
His only Beloved Son at three and thirty years of age from 
our world, your boy is safe: I know that the mighty plan 
is larger, sweeter, and deeper than all thought, and that we 
what we need to-da}^ is to go biu^y our sorrow, and to wait 
for the morning to dawn." 

His young friends, in sadness, covered the earth and 
lined the grave with blossoms. As the body was laid to 
rest, it was with these words from Dr. Gunsaulus, "not 
dust to dust, but bud to bud and spring to spring." 

The following remarks were offered by Dr. Caverno, uncle 
of the decedent: 

" ' That life is long which answers life's great end.' 
Tried by this rule we have in Herbert C. Andrews a remark- 



450 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

ably complete result. We seem to be set in this universe 
with the problem before us of adapting ourselves to its 
conditions for time and eternity. What makes it so clear 
in regard to the future of this young man is that he seemed 
before he left us to have made adjustment to all the con- 
ditions passing or probable. He had the open mind and 
the forward look. That attitude discovers and reveals. 
It is not too much to say that he had native ability to enter 
upo 1 any of the paths open to human effort. But better, 
he had the disposition to work along any or all of them as 
exigency might seem to require. A fine scholar, yet he 
made a valued hand m a lumber miU. He kept the guiding 
thread in any department of thought or action to which 
he was introduced. The last year of his life shows his Plato 
read and marked. His mind was opened once and forever 
to the treasures of literatiu-e. When he left us he was an 
authority in genealogy and heraldry, a remarkable result 
for a man so young. Some of us thought that this study 
would inevitably make of him a historian. We are sure 
that from his fine sensibihty and keen perception, we should 
have had something that would rank high in truth and 
taste. We are inclined to envy him his new found privil- 
eges, further out in art. Herbert was an artist. In music 
not only did he attain to excellence m instrmnental exe- 
cution, but in composition as well. If our ears were timed 
to the rhythms of the ether as oiu- eyes are to the color of 
the spectrum, we could catch combinations out of an etheral 
gamut. President McCosh said, 'There are harmonies in 
the works of God that are beyond the pamter's pencil and 
the poet's pen, falling on the ear with a more melodious 
rhythm and a sweeter cadence than the most exquisite 
music' What science has done for the last hundred 
years has been to make certain the existence of these har- 
monies out in realms not open to the grasp of the facul- 
ties of earth. Herbert had the thread of such harmonies 
already in his hand, his soul was tuned to them and we 
will trust him to work out into the liberties of such glories, 
as he progresses in the spirit realm. 

"What of him religiously? There are many ways to come 
to a satisfactory answer to that question. Paul, in taking 
leave of the Philippians, as a farewell direction, says this: 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 451 

'Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatso- 
ever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, what- 
soever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, what- 
soever things are of good report, if there be any virtue and 
if there be any praise think on these things?' Those of us 
who were familiar with Herbert during the last few years 
of his life have been impressed that he was striving to attain 
that ultimate direction for the adjustment of human 
thought to the ways of God, and that he was far along in 
success m it. A little incident which occiu'red last summer, 
as he was spelling out inscriptions at the graves of his 
ancestors in Connecticut, has a whole revelation of his 
religious attitude in it. 'This is a noble line back of me 
I do not want to be comited out of it.' Enough. Christ 
will own his own. To us who remain, just one word from 
Whittier's 'My Psalm:' 

" 'All as God wills, who wisely heeds 

To give or to withold. 
And do the shadows fall apart. 
And so the West winds play, 
And all the wuidows of my heart 

I open to the day.' " 

The Reverend James M. Campbell, Pastor of the First 
Church of Lombard, writes of the decedent as follows: 

"The ten years during which I knew Herbert Andrews, 
and during which I watched over his mental and moral 
development with something of a pastor's solicitude, com- 
prised the period when he shot up from boyhood to young 
manhood. From the first I was impressed with his pre- 
cocity. He was thoughtful beyond his years. He had a 
sensitive and highly strung temperament ; and as he passed 
through the formative stage of juvenile effervescence, one 
could not help being anxious about his future. He early 
manifested a questioning, inquiring spirit, which, in matters 
religious, could not readily submit to the dictates of out- 
ward authority. It was a necessity of his naiiu'e that he 
reason things out for himself; and that he accept only 
what stood the test of experience. His search was for 
reality, and through all his days of stress and strain he never 
lost reverence for divine things, nor respect for embodied 



452 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

goodness. He ever kept before himself the highest moral 
ideals. His life was clean; his deportment courteous and 
manly, and any appeal to his sense of honor was sure to 
meet with a swift and hearty response. As might be 
expected in one so genuinely sincere, he gradually came 
round to accept what was essential m the Christian faith, 
and when the time came when his mifinished tasks had to 
be laid aside, I for one, was not surprised to hear him say, 
in a moment of supreme soul-revealing, * It looks as if the 
end of my life was drawing near: if so, my soul is at rest, 
and I can face the future without a fear.' His attitude 
was that of the implicit trust expressed in the Hues, 

" 'I know not where His islands lift 

Their fronded palms in air; 
I only know I cannot drift 

Beyond His love and care. 
And so beside the Silent Sea, 

I wait the muffled oar; 
No harm from Him can come to me 

On ocean or on shore.' 

"Our young friend whose going out we mourn, possessed 
a touch of genius. Had strength of body and length of 
days been given to him, he could easily have attained dis- 
tinction hi several directions. Those of us who knew him 
best expected most from him in the coming years. His 
untimely death brings the blighting of many a fondly 
cherished hope. But we cannot for a moment believe that 
such a life can be lost. Of those before the throne of God 
it is said, 'They serve Him day and night in His temple,' 
and we feel sure that in the world to which our yomig friend 
has gone, there is need of such gifts as those with which he 
was so richly dowered." 

1651. HERBERT LEE MILLS" (Jane Louisa Andrews" Alfred 
Andrews' Roxana Hmsdale* Elijah^ John* Barnabas^ 
Barnabas^ Robert'), son of Lieutenant-Governor Lyman 
Allen Mills and Jane Louisa Andrews, his wife, born at 
Middlefield, Conn., February 26, 1866, was baptized Octo- 
ber, 1868, by Reverend Spafford D. Jewett, former pastor 
of the Congregational Church at that place. He was pre- 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 453 

pared for college at the Wilson Grammar School and Dr. 
Holbrook's Military College, at Briar Cliff, below Peekskill, 
N. Y. In 1887 he entered Yale College, where he remained 
one year, taking the academic com*se, being ranked through- 
out his stay in the first of the five divisions into which the 
students were organized. He has always been interested 
in athletics, and while in the preparatory school was a 
member of a base-ball nine and captain of a foot-ball team. 
On leaving Yale in 1889, he became a clerk for the Orr & 
Lockett Hardware Company, the largest retailers in that 
line in Chicago, and later removed to New Britain, Conn., 
where he is established on North Main St. and has one of 
the largest stocks of hardware in the city. Mr. Mills is a 
progressive business man, and in politics is a Republican, 
but has never been actively interested in party manage- 
ment. He married at Chicago, 111., Aug. 31, 1892, Bessie 
Delano Kendall, born at New York, Jan. 2, 1873, daugh- 
ter of Joseph Kendall, born at Sterling, Mass., and Catherine 
Wellsman, his wife. 

Children, born in New Britain, Conn.: 

2198. i. KATHERINE LYMAN, bom Oct. 28, 1896. 

2199. ii. KENDALL ANDREWS, bom Jan. 14, 1903. 

1675. KATE HENRIETTA BUTLER" (Horace Malcolm Butler' 

William Hinsdale Butler' Chloe Hinsdale" Barnabas^ 
Daniel^ Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert^ , daughter of Horace 
Malcolm Butler and Cornelia Catherine Dorman, his wife, 
born June 7, 1847, married September 21, 1870, James 
Merwin Smith, who died January 30, 1891. 

Children: 

2200. i. CORTLANDT BUTLER, bom Aug. 26, 1873. 

2201. ii. RAYMOND STONE, bom Nov. 24, 1877; died May 26, 

1878. 

1676. EMMA LOUISE BUTLER' (Horace Malcolm Butler' 

William Hinsdale Butler' Chloe Hinsdale" Barnabas^ 
Daniel Barnabas' Barnabas^ Robert'), daughter of Horace 
Malcolm Butler and Cornelia Catherine Dorman, his wife, 
born October 17, 1848, died April 6,1882. She married, first, 
May 2, 1867, George F. Hutchins, who died June 21, 1878. 
She married, second, October 21, 1879, Edward C. Wood. 



454 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Children: 

By her first husband, George F. Hutchins. 

2202. i. HENRY WALTER, born July 6, 1868; married Carrie 

Webster. 

2203. ii. ISABELLA HENRIETTA, bom Mar. 21, 1871; died July 

17, 1871. 

2204. iii. ATALA MAE, bom Aug. 5, 1875; married Frederick W. 

Gahr. 

1678. BESSIE BUTLER WHITNEY" (Louise Caldwell Butler« 
Jeremiah Butler' Chloe Hinsdale" Barnabas^ Daniel* Bar- 
nabas^ Barnabas^ Robert^) , daughter of John Randall Whit- 
ney and Louise Caldwell Butler, his wife, born June 9, 1856, 
married Aug. 31, 1882, Dr. Arthur Van Harlingen. 

Children : 

2205. i. JOHN MARTIN, bom Sept. 14, 1883. 

2206. ii. ARTHUR, born Sept. 3, 1884; died Mar. 18, 1886. 

1681. LOUIS BUTLER WHITNEY » (Louisa Caldwell Butler' 
Jeremiah Butler' Chloe Hinsdale" Barnabas^ DanieP Bar- 
nabas^ Barnabas^ Robert*), son of John Randall Whitney 
and Louise Caldwell Butler, his wife, born Feb. 13, 1863, 
married Oct. 30, 1889, Mary Ella Head. 

Children: 

2207. i. FRANCES LOUISE, bom June 16, 1891. 

2208. ii. JOHN RANDALL, bom July 14, 1894. 

1704. CATHERINE CRANE HINSDALE" (James' Charles' 

Epaphras* Barnabas^ Daniel* Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert'), 
daughter of James Crane Hinsdale and his first wife, 
Ehzabeth Ann Pratt, born May 10, 1862, died September 
23, 1903. She married, January 8, 1891, Francis Bacon 
Fairbanks of Meriden, Conn., and resided in Springfield, 
Mass. 

Child: 

2209. i. HARRIET ELIZABETH, bom Sept. 22, 1891; died Jan. 

21, 1903. 

1705. CHARLES J. HINSDALE" (James« Charles' Epaphras" 

Barnabas^ Daniel* Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert^, son of 
James Crane Hinsdale and his first wife, Ehzabeth Ann 
Pratt, born October 20, 1865; married February 4, 1890, 




MRS. MARY T. HOWE 
No. 1719 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 455 

Clara Dowd of Meriden, Conn. He was City Auditor of 
Meriden, Conn., where they now reside. 

Child: 

2210. i. MARJORIE DOWD, born Nov. 18, 1894. 

1715. EMILY SEYMOUR HALSEY « (EUzabeth H. Goble« Emily 
Seymour Hinsdale' Epaphras^ Barnabas^ DanieP Barnabas* 
Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter of Stephen A. Halsey and 
EUzabeth H. Goble, his wife, born at Astoria, L. I., July 
13, 1855, married, September 13, 1877, Robert B. Tisdale 
of Astoria. 

Children: 

2211. i. EDITH MAY, bom May 3, 1878. 

2212. ii. JAMES TRESCOTT, born July 30, 1879; died at Astoria, 

Oct. 27, 1882. 

1719. MARY WEATHERBURN THOMPSON* (Anna Weather- 
burn Hinsdale^ Hemy Butler' Horace Seymour* Barnabas* 
DanieP Barnabas* Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter of Bishop 
Hugh MiUer Thompson and Anna Weatherburn Hinsdale, 
his wife, born May 17, 1861, died November 15, 1903, 
married at Jackson, Miss., May 6, 1889, Reverend William 
ToRREY Howe, who died August 12, 1897, son of Judge 
James H. Howe of Wisconsin. 

ChUd: 

2213. i. JAMES HENRY, born Aug. 7, 1896. 

1728. LILLIAN MAY HINSDALE " (James THey^ James Tiley' 
DanieP DanieP Daniel* Barnabas* Barnabas^ Robert^, 
daughter of James Tiley Hinsdale, Jr. and EUza Chamber- 
lain, his wife, born at Hartford, Conn., February 20, 1861, 
married there June 28, 1882, Alonzo Cicero Smeed, who 
was born at Rome, Ga., May 23, 1860. They Uved at 
Winston, N. C, in 1896. 

Children: 

2214. i, GERTRUDE MAY, born Oct. 28, 1888. 

2215. ii. LOUISA ELNORA, born Sept. 9, 1892. 

2216. iii. HENRY GRADY, bom Nov. 25, 1894. 

1738. DOCTOR LYMAN R. HINSDILL' (Edward^ MHo^ Daniel* 
Joseph^ Joseph* Isaac* Barnabas^ Robert^, son of Edward 



456 HINSDAI,E GENEALOGY 

Hinsdill and Nancy M. Towsley, his wife, born at North 
Bennington, Vt., April 4, 1865, married, April 27, 1887, 
Lucy Thomas. He was educated at the Normal College of 
Morris, 111.; Academy of Wilton Junction, la.; and Drake 
University of Des Moines, la., where he was given the M. D. 
degree, April 4, 1894. He is now living at Tingley, la. 

Child: 

2217. i. ILA M., bom at Hartford, Mich., July 27, 1888. 

1739. ARTHUR HINSDILL" (Edward* Milo' Daniel" Joseph* 

Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert'), son of Edward Hins- 
dill and Nancy M. Towsley, his wife, born at North 
Bennington, Vt., January 11, 1867, married Ella Deven- 

DORF. 

Children: 

2218. i. RHEA, bom June 14, 1893. 

2219. ii. DORLA, bom Apr. 15, 1895. 

1740. LILLIAN HINSDILL' (Edward* Milo' Daniel" Joseph"* 

Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert'), daughter of Edward 
Hinsdill and Nancy M. Towsley, his wife, born at North 
Bennington, Vt., Jime 30, 1868, married, September 3, 1890, 
Charles 0. Smedley of Grand Rapids, Mich. He is an 
attorney at law. 

Child: 

2220. i. HAROLD H., bom at Grand Rapids, Sept. 29, 1893. 

1753. ANNA MARGARITTA BALLARD' (Stephen Hinsdill 
Ballard* Emeline Hinsdill' Stephen" Joseph* Joseph* Isaac' 
Barnabas^ Robert'), daughter of Captain Stephen Hinsdill 
Ballard and Sarah S. Wilson, his wife, born at Grand 
Rapids, Mich., July 5, 1868, was baptized at St. Mark's 
Church, Grand Rapids, by Dr. J. P. Tresten, Rector, 
Christmas, 1868. She was married at 1432 Logan Avenue, 
Denver, Colo., by Rev. Charles H. Marshall, Rector of 
Trinity Memorial Church of Denver, October 3, 1888, to 
William W. Ballard. They reside at Box Elder, Colo. 

Children: 

2221. i. WILLIAM WHITNEY, born at Denver, Colo., Aug. 29, 

1889; baptized at Trinity Memorial Church, Denver, by 
Rev. Charles H. Marshall, Rector; died at Denver, Sept. 
18, 1890. 




DR. LYMAN R. HINSDILL 
No. 1738 



HINSDAT.E GENEALOGY 457 

2222. ii. CAROLINE NELSON, born at Watkins, Colo., Sept. 26, 

1890; baptized at St. Mark's Church, Denver, by Rev. 
Alfred Arundel, Rector. 

2223. hi. CHARLOTTE HAWKES, born at Watkins, Nov. 12, 

1892. 

2224. iv. SUSAN, bom at Watkins, June 16, 1894. 



1754. CAROLINE NELSON BALLARD' (Stephen Hinsdill 
Ballard' Emeline HinsdilP Stephen* Joseph^ Joseph^ Isaac* 
Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter of Captain Stephen Hinsdill 
Ballard and Sarah S. Nelson, his wife, born at Grand 
Rapids, Mich., March 16, 1870, was baptized at St. Mark's 
Church, Grand Rapids, by Rev. Samuel Eaep, Rector, 
April 6, 1871. She was married at St. Mark's Church, 
Denver, Colo., by Rev. Alfred W. Arundel, Rector, Sep- 
tember 1, 1891, to John Alnutt Talbot. They reside at 
Denver. 

Chikh-en : 

2225. i. CAROLINE BALLARD, born at Denver, Colo., June 28, 

1892; baptized at Cripple Creek, Colo., by Rev C. Y. 
Grimes, Rector, October, 1893. 

2226. ii. JOHN ALNUTT, born at Cripple Creek, Aug. 14, 1893; 

baptized there by Rev. C. Y. Grimes, October, 1893. 

1789. EFFIE LOUISE CALKINS' (Charles Walbridge Calkins^ 
Mary Ann Hinsdale' Hiram' Joseph^ Joseph'* Isaac^ Barna- 
bas^ Roberto, daughter of Colonel Charles Walbridge 
Calkins and Mary L. Scovel, his wife, born at Grand Rapids, 
Mich., November 12, 1873, was married there, at the resi- 
dence of her parents, 169 North La Fayette Street, by Rev. 
John R. McCormick, June 10, 1903, to William Henry 
Rea. It was a rose wedding, and the house was beautifully 
decorated. The couple received many gifts, among them, 
some old Enghsh silver treasured for many years in the 
family of Mr. Rea. The bride and groom made an exten- 
sive eastern trip. Returning, they made their home in 
Grand Rapids. 

1849. ELLA MAY HARRIS' (Mary Earl' Lydia Boardman^ 
William Boardman** Lydia Hmsdale^ Joseph* Isaac^ Bar- 
nabas^ Robert^) , daughter of Seymour Harris and Mary Earl, 



458 HINSD-AJ.E GENEALOGY 

his wife, born July 10, 1852, married Aug. 27, 1872, George 
P. Hardy, of Morrisville, Vt. 

Child: 

2227. i. HARRY, of Morrisville, Vt. 

1852. CARROL E. HARRIS' Olary EarP Lydia Boardman^ 
WiUiam Boardman" Lydia Hinsdale^ Joseph^ Isaac^ Bar- 
nabas^ Roberto, son of Seymoiu- Harris and Mary Earl, 
his wife, born April 20, 1857, married July 20, 1883, Mary 
Galbritt of Canada. 

Child: 

2228. i. EARL. 

1889. MINNIE E. HEWES' (FideUa L. Wood^ Diantha S. Board- 
man' Alfred Boardman' Lydia Hinsdale* Joseph* Isaac^ 
Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter of Daniel Hewes and FideUa 
L. Wood, his wife, born at Crete, 111., July 10, 1863, married, 
November, 1886, George F. Baker. 

Child: 

2229. i. GEORGE W., born in 1887. 

1914. EMILY CORNELIA CURTIS' (Mary Hinsdale Grandey' 
Truman Grandey' Jesse Grandey^ Mary Hinsdale* Joseph* 
Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert'), daughter of Zenas Alanson 
Curtis and Mary Hinsdale Grandey, his wife, born Novem- 
ber 16, 1846, married February 14, 1864, Silas Tappen 
of Panton, Vt. 

Child: 

2230. i. JACOB ARTHUR, born Apr. 30, 1866; married Laura 

Kenyon. 

1917. JESSIE FREMONT CURTIS" (Mary Hinsdale Grandey« 
Truman Grandey' Jesse Grandey' Mary Hinsdale* Joseph* 
Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert^, daughter of Zenas Alanson 
Curtis and Mary Hinsdale Grandey, his wife, born July 2, 
1861, married February 6, 1884, a Mr. Schenck. 

Children : 

2231. i. HERBERT, bom at Francisco, Mich., Jan. 21, 1885. 

2232. ii. ROLLIN JAY, bom at Chelsea, Mich., July 3, 1886, 

2233. iii. SIDNEY, bora at Chelsea, Jan. 19, 1891. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 459 

2234. iv. ESTHER MARY, bom at Chelsea, Nov. 9, 1894. 

2235. V. GRACE, born at Chelsea, July 26, 1896. 

2236. vi. GLADYS, bom at Chelsea, July 26, 1896. 

1918. TRUMAN G. KENT' (Maria Louisa Grandeys Truman 

Grandey' Jesse Grandey' Mary Hinsdale'^ Joseph^ Isaac^ 
Barnabas^ Robert*), son of Loyal Kent and Maria Louise 
Grandey, his wife, born September 21, 1852, married Feb- 
ruary 23, 1881. 

Children: 

2237. i. HARRY TUTTLE, bom Oct. 13, 1884. 

2238. ii. HOWARD LOYAI., bom Sept., 1889. 

2239. iii. MURRAY GRANDEY, bom June 1, 1894. 

1919. BURTON I^NT* (Maria Lousia Grandey« Truman Gran- 

dey^ Jesse Grandey' Mary Hinsdale^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barna- 
bas^ Roberto, son of Loyal Kent and Maria Louisa Grandey, 
his wife, born November 8, 1858, married March 17, 1886. 

Children : 

2240. i. BRUCE PARK, bom July 9, 1892. 

2241. ii. ROSS BURTON, bom Sept. 14, 1894. 

1920. ROLLIN J. KENT* (Maria Louisa Grandey" Truman 

Grandey^ Jesse Grandey' Mary Hinsdale^ Joseph* Isaac^ 
Barnabas* Robert^, son of Loyal Kent and Maria Louisa 
Grandey, his wife, born October 1, 1866, married, October 
31, 1894. 

Child: 

2242. i. RUSSELL, bom Nov. 16, 1895. 

1922. CYNTHIA E. KENT ' (CorneUa Grandey" Truman Grandey' 
Jesse Grandey' Mary Hinsdale* Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas* 
Robert'), daughter of Enoch J. Kent and Cornelia Grandey, 
his wife, born December 2, 1853, married, April 1881, A. O. 
Newton. 

Children: 

2243. i. RALPH A., bom July 23, 1883. 

2244. ii. HOLLIS K., bom Mar. 31, 1886. 

2245. iii. HARRY L., bom Feb. 26, 1888. 

1924. ELWYN KENT' (Cornelia Grandey" Truman Grandey' 
Jesse Grandey' Mary Hinsdale" Joseph* Isaac" Barnabas' 



460 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Robert'), son of Enoch J. Kent and Cornelia Grandey, his 
wife, born March 27, 1861, married, December 25, 1882, 
Emma Drew. 

Children : 

22-46. i. ROY E., bom Aug. 24, 1883. 

2247. ii. NYLE E., bom July 3, 1891. 

1925. PRUDY E. KENT' (Cornelia Grandey' Truman Grandey^ 
Jesse Grandey" Mary Hinsdale' Joseph* Isaac ^ Barnabas'^ 
Robert'), daughter of Enoch J. Kent and Corneha Grandey, 
his wife, born September 19, 1868, married, October 26, 
1891, Nathaniel Neill. 

Children : 

2248. i. ALICE C, bom Jan. 2, 1893. 

2249. ii. DOROTHY K., bom Jan. 18, 1895. 

1929. CHARLES M. GRANDEY ' (Jesse Lyman Grandey' Truman 

Grandey' Jesse Grandey' Mary Hmsdale' Joseph* Isaac ^ 
Barnabas^ Robert'), son of Jesse Lyman Grandey and 
Adeline Kmgsland, his wife, born Jime 17, 1867, married, 
April 16, 1889, Clara Coburn. 

Children : 

2250. i. BERTHA, bom May 16, 1891. 

2251. ii. HOWARD LYMAN, bom Aug. 22, 1895. 

1930. ELBERT L. STAGG ' (Harriet Grandey' Truman Grandey' 

Jesse Grandey' Mary Hinsdale"* Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ 
Robert'), son of Josiah N. Stagg and Harriet Grandey, his 
wife, born August 24, 1861, married August 9, 1884, Ida 
May Norton, who was born February 20, 1865. 

Children : 

2252. i. JESSIE MAY, bom July 18, 1886. 

2253. ii. HAROLD NORTON, bom Jan 18, 1891. 

2254. iii. WILLIAM MYRICK, bom Aug. 11, 1892. 

2255. iv. PERLIE EDWARD, bom Aug. 18, 1893. 

2256. V. EDGAR JOSIAH, bom Aug. 26, 1895. 

1931. MINNIE A. GRANDEY' (William Myrick Grandey' 

Truman Grandey' Jesse Grandey" Mary Hinsdale" Joseph* 
Isaac' Barnabas^ Robert'), daughter of William Myrick 
Grandey and his first wife, Ellen M. Myrick, born at Bridge- 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 461 

port, Vt., January 11, 1865, married, October 6, 1886, 
Henry K. Williams. 

ChUd: 

2257. i. FRANKLIN G., bom May 17, 1893. 

1932. WILLNA M. GRANDEY* (William Myrick Grandey' 
Truman Grandey' Jesse Grandey' Mary Hinsdale' Joseph* 
Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert*), daughter of WiUiam Myrick 
Grandey and his first wife. Ellen M. Myrick, born at Bridge- 
port, Vt., June 27, 1869, married, December 23, 1890, 
William L. Bacon. 

Children : 

2258. i. WILLIAM ARTHUR, bom Oct. 29, 1892. 

2259. ii. IRA, bom Sept. 23, 1894. 

2260. iii Daughter, bom Aug. 23, 1896. 

1935. ELSIE M. WHITE' (EUen Grandey' Truman Grandey' 

Jesse Grandey" Mary Hinsdale' Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ 
Robert'), daughter of William White and Ellen Grandey, 
his wife, born January 23, 1863, married, February 1, 1881, 
George W. Hatch. 

Child: 

2261. i. DIXIE, bom Aug. 10, 1891. 

1936. GEORGE N. WHITE' (EUen Grandey' Truman Grandey^ 

Jesse Grandey' Mary Hinsdale' Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ 
Roberto, son of WiUiam White and EUen Grandey, his 
wife, born April 16, 1865, married, September 3, 1890, 
Aglora a. Roberts. 

Child: 

2262. i. WILLIAM N., bom Mar. 28, 1893. 

1938. ANNA S. WHITE' (Ellen Grandey' Truman Grandey' 
Jesse Grandey' Mary Hinsdale' Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ 
Roberto, daughter of WiUiam White and EUen Grandey, 
his wife, born February 15, 1870, married, September 9, 
1891, Albee Merrill. 

Children : 

2263. i. ELSIE, bom Jan. 16, 1894. 

2264. ii. MARGUERITE, bom Mar. 3, 1895. 



462 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

1943. JESSIE MAY POPE* (Jane Ann Conant' Samantha Gran- 
dey' Jesse Grandey" Mary Hinsdale^ Joseph* Isaac' Barna- 
bas^RobertO, daughter of WilUam H, Pope and Jane Ann 
Conant, his wife, born at Parma, Mich., May 1, 1864, 
married at Santa Ana, Cal., October 12, 1887, Lockwood 
R. May, who died at Pompton Plains, N. J., December 13, 
1896. She resides at present at Pompton Plains. 

Child: 

2265. i. WILLIAM H., born at Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 9, 1888. 

1947. MARY EMILY CRIPPEN' (Sarah Jane Myrick" Anna 

Grandey' Jesse Grandey* Mary Hinsdale* Joseph* Isaac* 
Barnabas' Robert^, daughter of E. M. Crippen and Sarah 
Jane Myrick, his wife, born at Coldwater, Branch Coimty, 
Mich., August 17, 1859, married, November 18, 1876, Sam- 
uel M. Gillette, who was born July 17, 1859. She now 
lives at Detroit, Mich. 

iJhildren: 

2266. i. HARRY M., bom at Jackson, Jackson Co., Mich., Dec. 10, 

1877. 

2267. ii. LOLA DOROTHY, bom at Parma, Jackson Co., Mich., 

Jan. 27, 1880. 

1948. CHARLES LEE KING ' (Anna L. Bm-welP Achsah Grandey' 

Jesse Grandey^ Mary Hinsdale^ Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ 
Roberto, son of James Henry King and Anna L. Biu-well, 
his wife, born at Parma, Mich., April 27, 1862, married at 
Aberdeen, So. Dak., January 10, 1893, Louisa M. New- 
house. 

Children: 

2268. i. FLORENCE R., born at Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 13, 1893. 

2269. ii. GEORGE H., bom at Harvey, No. Dak., Aug. 9, 1895. 

1949. NINA F. KING' (Anna L. Burwell^ Achsah Grandey' 

Jesse Grande}'^' Mary Hinsdale' Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas' 
Robert'), daughter of James Henry King and Anna L. 
Biu-weD, his wife, born at Parma, Mich., March 30, 
1864, married at her father's home at Milbank, So, 
Dak., December 23, 1885, Eugene H. Fargo of Madi- 
son, Wis. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 463 

Children: 

2270. i. ILLMA, bom at Milbank, So. Dak., Mar. 18. 1887. 

2271. ii. LEON KING, born at MUbank, May 25, 1888. 

2272. iii. ANNA L., born at Milbank, June 19, 1889. 

2273. iv. DOROTHY M., born at Aberdeen, So. Dak., May 16,1895. 

1950. EDDIE T. KING" (Anna L. BiirweU^ Achsah Grandey' 
Jesse Grandey* Mary Hinsdale^ Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ 
Robert'), son of James Henry King and Anna L. Burwell, 
his wife, born at Parma, Mich., January 17, 1869, married 
at Brookings, So. Dak., September 18, 1889, Myktle 
Harvey. He resided at Brooldngs in 1897. 

Children: 

2274. i. HARVEY J., bom at Milbank, So. Dak., Feb. 23, 1888. 

2275. ii. NINA ELOISE, bom at Brookings, So. Dak., Mar. 2, 1890. 

1993. ELIZABETH GRACE PITMAN' (Adeline Mary Hinsdale^ 

Norman Mitchell' Mitchell* Aaron' Joseph"* Isaac ^ Barnabas^ 
Roberto, daughter of Charles Pitman and Adehne Mary 
Hinsdale, his wife, born November 1, 1869, married, October 
7, 1897, Frank Keiper. 

Children: 

2276. i. ELIZABETH, bom Feb. 5, 1900. 

2277. ii. ICATHERINE, bom Oct. 21, 1903. 

1994. BENJAMIN PITMAN' (Adehne Mary Hinsdale^ Norman 

Mitchell' Mitchell* Aaron' Joseph* Isaac' Barnabas^ 
Roberto, son of Charles Pitman and Adeline Mary Hins- 
dale, his wife, born September 15, 1870, married, September 
28, 1897, Lelia Cecil Allatt. 

Child: 

2278. i. GILBERT ALLATT, bom May 1, 1905. 

2076. IVA MAY BROWNELL ' (Mary J. CasweU« Susan Hinsdale' 
Chauncey^ David' Jonathan^ Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert'), 
daughter of Phihp Taylor Brownell and Mary J. Caswell, 
his wife, born at Elmira, N. Y., December 17, 1869, married, 
June 12, 1894, Charles Manlius Welch of Syracuse, 
N. Y. They are now living at Syracuse, where Mr. Welch 

\ is State Editor of the Herald. Their summer residence is 

the old house at Pompey, N. Y., built by David Hinsdale 
about 1797. 



464 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Children : 

2279. i. PHILIP HINSDALE, bom Sept. 11, 1895. 

2280. ii. CHRISTINE CASWELL, bom Mar. 10, 1905. 

2077. ELLEN LOUCHELLE HINSDALE (HINSDELL) ' Oliver 

Asahel^ Asahel Bemis' AsaheP DavicP Jonathan^ Isaac' Bar- 
nabas^ Roberto, daughter of Oliver Asahel Hinsdale 
(Hinsdell) and Harriett A. Starr, his wife, born April 
13, 1874, married a Mr, Carlsen. 

Child: 

2281. i. HARRIETT MARIE, bom June 22, 1904. 

2078. ROY STARR HINSDALE (HINSDELL) " Oliver AsaheP 

Asahel Bemis' Asahel* David'^ Jonathan* Isaac' Barnabas^ 
Roberto, son of Oliver Asahel Hinsdell and Harriet A. Starr, 
his wife, born October 8, 1875, married Dorothy Clarissa 
Wooden, who was born at Battle Creek, Mich., November 
22, 1881. 

Child: 

2282. i. CAROLYN, bom Nov. 24, 1902. 

2119. JONAS MINOT, JR.' (Electa Frary Morton' Lucretia 
Parsons^ Justin Parsons' Rebecca Sheldon* Benjamin 
Sheldon* Mary Hinsdale' SamueP RobertO, son of Jonas 
Minot and his second wife, Electa Frary Morton, born at 
Clarkson, N. Y., June IS, 1853, married at Brooklyn, So. 
Dak., April 7, 1881, Josephine Hastings. 

Children: 

2283. i. MARY ELECTA, bom Dec. 23, 1881. 

2284. ii. LUCIA ADELIA, bom Mar. 26, 1886. 

2128. HONOR.ABLE WILLIAJM MORTON GRINNELL" (Mary 
Morton* Lucretia Parsons' Justin Parsons" Rebecca Sheldon* 
Benjamin Sheldon* Mary Hinsdale' SamueP Robert'), son 
of Honorable William F. Grinnell and Mary Morton, his 
wife, born at New York, N. Y., February 28, 1857. He 
entered Harvard in his seventeenth year, but was forced by 
ill health to give up his studies and go abroad. He after- 
ward returned to New York, studied law at Columbia 
College, was admitted to the bar, and has since practiced 
in New York and Paris, and was for a time connected with 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 465 

the American Legation in Paris. In February, 1892, he 
was nominated by President Harrison, and at once con- 
firmed by the Senate, Third Assistant Secretary of 
State. 

2132. MARY LUCRETIA HARTPENCE' (Martha Morton » 
Lucretia Parsons' Justin Parsons" Rebecca Sheldon^ 
Benjamin Sheldon^ Mary Hinsdale^ SamueP Robert^, 
daughter of Reverend Alanson Hartpence and Martha 
Morton, his wife, born at La Fayette, Ind., August 8, 1883, 
was married as his second wife, at Newport, R. L, Septem- 
ber 18, 1872, by Rev. Henry C. Potter, D. D., now Bishop 
of New York, to Mahlon Day Sands, of New York, who 
was born March 1, 1842, and died at London, Eng., May 7, 
1888, son of Abraham B. Sands, a prominent New York 
merchant, and Sarah A, Day, his wife, daughter of Mahlon 
Day of New York. For some time prior to his death, Mr. 
Sands resided in England. He was a member of the Union, 
Knickerbocker, and Yacht Clubs of New York, and the 
Marlborough and Reform Clubs of I^ondon. Before his 
departure for Europe, he was Secretary and prominent in 
the organization of the Free Trade League, and in 
England he took a keen interest in public affairs, enjoy- 
ing the confidence and friendship of many of the 
leading members of the Liberal party, including Mr. 
Gladstone, Sir WiUiam Harcoiu-t and Lord Wolverton. 
He was very fond of hunting and field sports and his death 
was due to the fall of his horse in Hyde Park. His energy, 
mental activity, simplicity and genuineness of character 
won the respect of his friends on both sides of the 
Atlantic. 

Children: 

2285. i. ETHEL, bom at Newport, R. I., July 5, 1873. 

2286. ii. MAHLON ALANSON, bom at New York, N. Y., Nov. 8, 

1878. 

2287. iii. MORTON HARCOURT, bom in London, Eng., Sept. 15, 

1884. 

2134. LUCY MORTON HARTPENCE » (Martha Morton« Lucre- 
tia Parsons' Justin Parsons" Rebecca Sheldon^ Benjamin 
Sheldon* Mary Hinsdale^ SamueP RobertO, daughter of 



466 HINSD.4I.E GENEALOGY 

Reverend Alanson Hartpence and Martha Morton, his wife, 
born at Nashville, Tenn., October 13, 1856, was married 
in Philadelphia, Pa., October 14, 1874, by Rev. Dr. Bel- 
ville, assisted by Thomas L. Janeway, D. D., to Reverend 
Francis Le Baron Robbins, D. D., who was born at 
Camillus, N. Y., May 2, 1830, son of Samuel Robbins and 
Fanny Osborne, his wife. 

Dr. Robbins was graduated at Williams College in 1854, 
studied theology at Auburn Seminary, and in 1860 was 
ordained to the ministry and installed pastor of the Green 
Hill Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia. He subse- 
quently founded the Oxford Presbyterian Church in Phila- 
delphia, which was dedicated in 1869, and of which he 
became pastor, resigning the office in 1883. During his 
pastorate, the church edifice, one of the handsomest in 
the city, and which had been constructed largely through 
his efforts, was destroyed by fire. By his untiring energy 
it was, however, rebuilt in 1881, handsomer than ever, and 
has since been one of the prominent churches of the city, 
and leads its denomination in the matter of actual income 
and contributions. After his resignation Dr. Robbins 
traveled extensively in Europe, and on his return took up 
the work of founding a church in Kensington, the center 
of the manufacturing district of Philadelphia. In this he 
.succeeded, and in 1886 the Beacon Presbji^erian Church 
was dedicated. Connected with it is a reading-room and 
Ubrary ; a hall where lectures on travel, art, sanitation, and 
other popular and timely themes are dehvered ; class-rooms 
for instruction in mechanical arts, music, drawing and 
oratory; and a dispensary at which many thousand patients 
receive free medical attention yearly. He received the 
degree of D. D. from Union College, New York. 

Children: 

2288. i. ELEANOR HARTPENCE, born at PhUadelphia, Pa., July 

4, 1875; died Apr. 4, 1878. 

2289. ii. HOWARD CHANDLER, bom at Philadelphia, Dec. 11, 

1876. 

2290. iii. HELEN MORTON, bom at PhUadelphia, Nov. 4, 1878; 

died at Greenfield, Mass., May 28, 1891. 

2291. iv. MARGARET BRADFORD, bom at Philadelphia, Sept. 

11, 1881. 

2292. V. MARY ALICE, bom at Philadelphia, Dec. 19, 1882. 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 467 

2293. vi. FRANCIS FENELON, bom at Geneva, Switzerland, May 

3, 1884. 

2294. vii. DOROTHEA LE BARON, born at Philadelphia, Nov. 

16, 1889. 

2136. FLORENCE ARVILLA BROOKS' (Emily Hinsdale" 
George Clark' SamueP SamueP Samuel* Mehmnan' Samuel* 
Roberto, daughter of Eli Brooks and Emily Hinsdale, his 
wife, born April 28, 1857, married John Wasson of Villisca, 
Iowa. 

Children, born at VilHsca, Iowa : 

2295. i. DORA. / 

2296. ii CHARLES. ^ 

2297. iii, EDWARD. 

2298. iv. ROBERT. 

2299. V. FRANK. 

2142. ELECTA MARIA BROOKS* (Enuly Hinsdale" George 
Clark' Samuel' SamueP Samuel* Mehuman" SamueP 
Roberto, daughter of Eli Brooks and Emily Hinsdale, his 
wife, born in Illinois, married in Iowa, Charles Green- 
field of Iowa, 

Children, born at Villisca, Iowa : 

2300. i. BENJAMIN HARRISON. 

2301. ii. NELLIE. 

2302. iii. ZAL. 

2303. iv. CORDELIA MAY. 

2146. WILLIAM PIERCE HINSDALE' (Samuel Dexter" George 
Clark' Samuel' SamueP SamueP Mehuman'' SamueP 
Roberto, son of Samuel Dexter Hinsdale and Helen J. 
Pierce, his wife, born in Monona County, Iowa, July 12, 
1866, married at Onawa, Monona County, la., April 4, 
1893, Lizzie Barnett of Monona County. 

Children: 

2304. i. WILLIAN PIERCE, (a daughter), bom Nov. 13, 1893. 

2305. ii. JENNIE RUTH, bom Oct. 24, 1895. 

2306. iii. NELLIE JANE, bom Feb. 20, 1902. 

2148. ADDISON O. HINSDALE' (Samuel Dexter" George Clark' 
SamueP SamueP SamueP Mehuman^ SamueP RobertO, 
son of Samuel Dexter Hinsdale and Helen J. Pierce, his wife, 
born in Monona County, la., August 13, 1871, married at 



468 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Georgetown, Colo., December 12, 1897, Anna Guanella. 
He was a merchant in Georgetown, but is now located 
at Pueblo, Colo. 

From Rocky Mountain News (Denver, Colo.), December 
13, 1897: 

"Georgetown, Colo., December 12. — A pretty home 
wedding took place at the home of the bride's parents, on 
Rose street, this evening at 3 :30 o'clock, when ]\Iiss Annie 
Guanella was united in marriage to Addison 0. Hinsdale 
of this place by the Rev. Father Donnelly. 

"The bride wore a gown of heliotrope trimmed in silk and 
white mousseline de sole. Her bodice was ornamented 
with orange blossoms, and caught at the throat by a 
diamond brooch, the gift of the groom. The bride was 
attended by her sister, Miss Josephine Guanella, who wore 
a gown of cardinal and cream. Bert Terrill acted as best 
man. The ring bearers were the bride's Httle niece and 
nephew, Patricia Noon, who wore a dainty dress of cream 
and heliotrope, and Jack Egad, who wore a suit of cream 
and cardinal. The parties entered to the strains of Men- 
delssohn's wedding march. The sixty-five guests were 
seated at nine tables, where the Misses Lacy, Layden, 
Haggard, Ward, Egan, Josie and Mamie Guanella and Ella 
and Jennie Babcock of Idaho Springs presided. The happy 
couple were the recipients of many costly presents. ^Ir. 
and Mrs. Hinsdale will make their home in this city, where 
Mr. Hinsdale is engaged in business." 

2152. CHARLES NATHAN BAKER" (Mary Ehzabeth Hinsdale« 

George Clark' SamueP SamueP Samuel Mehuman^ SamueP 
Roberto, son of Nicholas Wells Baker and Mary Elizabeth 
Hinsdale, his wife, born in lUinois, married Gussie Klug 
of Weld County, Colo. 

Children: 

2307. i. EMERY. 

2308. ii. CATHERINE ELIZABETH. 

2153. FANNY EVELINE BAKER* (Mary Ehzabeth Hinsdale* 

George Clark' Samuel' SamueP Samuel* Mehuman' SamueP 
Robert'), daughter of Nicholas Wells Baker and Mary 



HINSDALE GENEALOGY 469 

Elizabeth Hinsdale, his wife, born in Illinois, married 
Walter Ennes of Weld County, Colo. 

Children: 

2309. i. OSCAR. 

2310. ii. VINA, died an infant. 

2311. iii. ARTHUR. 

2154. LIZZIE MAY BAKER" (Mary Elizabeth Hinsdale* George 
Clark' SamueP SamueP Samuel* Mehuman^ SamueP 
Roberto, daughter of Nicholas WeUs Baker and Mary 
Ehzabeth Hinsdale, his wife, born in Illinois, married 
Charles Prussel of Iowa. 

Children: 

2312. i. OTTO. 

2313. ii. MAY. 

2202. HENRY WALTER HUTCHINS" (Emma Louise Butler" 
Horace Malcolm Butler* William Hinsdale Butler' Chloe 
Hinsdale" Barnabas^ Daniel* Barnabas^ Barnabas^ Robert*), 
son of George F. Hutchins and Emma Louise Butler, his 
wife, born July 6, 1868, married November 4, 1890, Carrie 
Webster. 

Children: 

2314. i. ETHEL LAVINA, bom July, 1892. 

2315. ii. AILINE WEBSTER, bom Aug. 30, 1895. 

2204. ATALA MAE HUTCHINS '' (Emma Louise Butler" Horace 
Malcolm Butler* William Hinsdale Butler' Chloe Hinsdaleg 
Barnabas^ Daniel* Barnabas^gBarnabas^ Robert^, daughter 
of George F. Hutchins and Emma Louise Butler, his wife, 
born August 5, 1875, married September 10, 1894, Fred- 
erick W. Gahr. 

Children: 

2316. i. LLOYD FREDERICK, bom Aug. 25, 1895. 

2317. ii. DOUGLAS HUTCHINS, bom July, 1899. 

2230. JACOB ARTHUR TAPPEN*" (Emily Corneha Curtis" 
Mary Hinsdale Grandey* Truman Grandey' Jesse Grandey" 
Mary Hinsdale^ Joseph* Isaac^ Barnabas^ Robert*), son of 
of Silas Tappen and Emily Corneha Curtis, his wife, born at 



470 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Panton, Vt., April 30, 1866, married November 30, 1887, 
Laura Kenyon, who was born at Ferrisburg, Vi., February 
19, 1870. 

Children, born at Panton, Vt. : 

2318. i. BESSIE S., bom May 25, 1891. 

2319. ii. SILAS H., born Sept. 23, 1894. 



ADDENDA. 

JOHN HINSDALE FAMILY. 

JOHN HINSDALE came from England and located at De 
Witt, near East Syracuse, N. Y., as early as 1820. 

Children : 

2. i. JOHN, bora at Montreal, Canada, 1812; married Deborah 

Bogardus. 

3. ii. NEHEMIAH C, marrica. 

4. iii. NORMAN, lived at Syracuse, N. Y., in 1896. 

5. iv. PETER B., born 1818, married Charity Vanalstine. 

6. V. CORNELIUS, bom at De Witt, near East Syracuse, N. Y., 

Jan 21, 1820; married. 

7. vi. PHOEBE, married a Mr. White; now living at Manlius, N. Y. 

8. vii RHODA, married a Mr. Miller; now living at Cortland, 

N. Y. 

9. viii. SARAH. 

10. Lx. MARTHA, living in 1896. 

11. X. JAMES, died. 

JOHN HINSDALE, Jr.^ (JohnO, son of John Hinsdale, was 
born at Montreal, Canada, in 1812, and died in 1848. He 
married Deborah Bogardus. He came to the United 
States in 1836, and settled at East Syracuse, N. Y. 

NEHEMIAH C. HINSDALE ^ (John^, son of John Hinsdale, 
was a granite salesman and resided at New Orleans, La. 

Children: 

12. i WILLIAM R., resided at Amberg, Wis., in 1896. 

13. ii. FRANK R., bom in 1865; died in 1876. 

14. iii, JENNIE, died. 

15. iv. FRED W. 

PETER B. HINSDALE ' (JohnO, son of John Hinsdale, born 
in 1818, married in 1837, Charity Vanalstine. He was a 
carriage manufacturer at New Haven, Conn. In 1896 he 
resided at Bridgeport, Conn. He died about 1901 in Spring- 
field, Mass. 



472 HINSDALE GENEALOGY 

Children: 

16. i. BETSEY ANN. bom and died in 1838. 

17. ii. CORNELIUS, bom 1840; married — Clark. 

18. iii. GEORGE W., bom in 1842; married Thorpe. 

19. iv. LUCRETIA, bom in 1844; married a Mr. Bean. 

20. V. ALICE, bom in 1845; married C. M. Shailer; resided at 72 

Gilbert Street, Bridgeport, Conn., in 1896. 

21. vi. ALBERTL.,) . , , ,. , . ,„., 

22. vii. ALFRED L., f ^'^^' ^°™ ^^^ ^'^^ "" ^^^^• 

23. viii. CHARLES, bom in 1849; died in 1850. 

24. ix. SAMUEL M., bom in 1851; died in 1853. 

25. X. ABEL. 

26. xi. ELLA, born in 1855. 

27. xii. ABRAM D., bom in 1857; married Kinsele. 

28. xiii. HARRIET, bom in 1860; married a Mr. Foster. 

29. xiv, ROYAL E., bom in 1862; married ^— Parke. 

30. XV. ISADORA, born 1865; died in 1866. 

6. CORNELIUS HINSDALE^ (JohnO, son of John Hinsdale, 
born at De Witt, near East Syracuse, N. Y., January 21, 
1820, died in 1886. He was a ship builder; resided at 
Sjrracuse, N. Y., and was twice married. 

Children : 

31. i. EUGENE, died in infancy. 

32. ii. DE WITT C, born in 1860; died in 1863. 

33. iii. WINFIELD E., bom at Syracuse, N. Y., Jan. 9, 1862; a 

sanitary engineer, cormected with the firm of Henry 
Huber Co., 244 Fifth Avenue, New York City. He mar- 
ried Feb. 15, 1887, Elizabeth A. Reddy, and they have 
one daughter, Jessie Belle Hinsdale, bom Apr. 17, 1889. 

34. iv. FRANK R., bom in 1865; died May 30, 1876. 



INDEX 



INDEX I. 



NAMES OF HINSDALES 

Referred to by Numbers. 



HINSDALE 



NO. 



HINSDALE 



NO. 



Aaron 128 

Aaron T 844 

Aaron Younglove 1503 

AbeP 123 

Abel« 175 

Abel ' 399 

Abel Knapp 413 

Abi Cornelia 906 

Abigail * 166 

Abigail^ 171 

Abigail « 232 

Ada Catherine 1591 

Adamae 2093 

Addie 1528 

Addie T 950 

Addison O 2148 

Adelaide Kellogg 765 

Adelia Maria 610 

Adeline Cynthia 736 

Adeline Mary 1344 

Albert ' 408 

Albert « 1529 

Alberta 2174 

Alexander Ellis 2086 

Alfred L 1506 

Alice 2178 

Alice A 1579 

Alinira ^ 400 

.Almira ' 937 

Almira Selden 634 

Alonzo 604 

Altamira 208 

AltheaFay 631 

Amanda ' 277 

Amanda ' 597 

Ameha ' 234 

Amelia ° 245 

Amos 50 

Amos Charles 1590 

Andrew 460 

Ann ' 19 

Ann ' 476 

Ann Eliza 1559 

Anna 194 

Anna Johnson 426 

Anna Judd 928 



Anna Pratt 1703 

Anna Weatherbum 1114 

Anne or Nancy 201 

Annie Lane Deverenx 1624 

Ardenia 1469 

Ariel * 161 

Ariel ' 899 

Arthur 1739 

Arthur Bemis 2079 

Asahel 318 

AsahelB 1501 

Asahel Bemis 839 

Asenath ' 407 

Asenath « 903 

Augusta ] 749 

Augustus E 1580 

Augustus Mason 964 

Aurelia B 489 

Ava Josephine 1592 

Barnabas ^ 3 

Barnabas ^ 12 

Barnabas * 42 

Barnabas ^ 103 

Barney 1498 

Benjamin 164 

Benjamin Sherman 1203 

Bennett Hopkins 456 

Berenice Lytton 2168 

Bernard 840 

Bertha 2165 

Bessie 1606 

Betsey 8 275 

Betsev* 292 

Beulah 1530 

Bingham 254 

Burke Aaron 919 

Burt 2171 

Caroline ' 543 

Caroline ' 599 

Caroline Ann 766 

Caroline Bond 424 

Caroline Hallam 484 

Caroline Lucretia 623 

Carolvn 2282 



473 



474 



INDEX 



HINSDALE NO. 

Carrie J 2084 

Carrie Sophia 1480 

Catherine « 241 

Catherine « 379 

Catherine « 380 

Catherine' 1085 

Catharine Banks 1713 

Catharine Crane 1704 

Catharine Ehzabeth 1702 

Catherine Hutchinson 1117 

Catherine Julia 582 

Catherme May 2180 

Celestia Fabrique 1349 

Celestia Roselle 735 

Charles ' 294 

Charles' 416 

Charles' 479 

Charles « 929 

Charles « 939 

Charles^ 1084 

Charles A.» 927 

Charles A.8 932 

Charles Alonzo 1746 

Charles Augustus * 1481 

Charles Augustus » 1608 

Charles Bowen 1089 

Charles Chauncey 457 

Charles Graham 1125 

Charles Haddock 998 

Charles J 1705 

Charles James 561 

Charles Johnson 1597 

Charles Mason 965 

Charles Mitchell « 1355 

Charles Mitchell » 2003 

Charles Weeks 946 

Charlotte 859 

Charlotte Grace 1565 

Charlotte Louisa 1202 

Charlotte Maria 421 

Chauncey 317 

Chauncey Brayton 1598 

Chester 898 

Chester Bingham 767 

Chester Norman 602 

Chloe" 130 

Chloe 8 193 

Chloe » 237 

Clara 1744 

Clarence 1595 

Clarence Edgerton 1172 

Clarence Holland 1613 

Clarissa 363 

Clark B 1564 

Clark Wesley 806 

Cora Belle 2087 

CoraE 2172 

Cora Etta 1487 

Cora Louise 1352 

Corine 2182 

Corinne 1399 



HINSDALE NO. 

Cornelia « 303 

Cornelia ' 1144 

Cornelia Graham 581 

Cynthia 290 

Cynthia E 1461 

Daniel * 49 

Daniel* 104 

Daniel " 209 

Daniel « 244 

Daniel « 251 

Daniel Briggs 605 

Daniel C 945 

Daniel Cabot 588 

Darius' 160 

Darius « 359 

David 5 132 

David « 319 

David « 1556 

David A 897 

Da\'idB 1504 

David Baldwin 2002 

David C 860 

David Hibbard 826 

David Moseley 488 

David Schuyler 869 

Delia ' 584 

Delia » 915 

Delia F. 1578 

Delia Lorain 737 

Dennis Locke 1174 

Dewey George 948 

Diana* 162 

Diana « 347 

Doris 1463 

Dorla 2219 

Dorothy 364 

Dorothy Mitchell 1341 

Dudley 1201 

EarlS 2039 

Ebenezer * 78 

Ebenezer ' 165 

Ebenezer ' 902 

Edgar 801 

Edith Grace 2166 

Edmund 838 

Edward 1145 

Edward P 925 

Edwin Charles 739 

Edwin Merrill 2005 

Eleanor 905 

Electa 257 

Eli » 327 

Eli ' 832 

Eli Bernard 821 

Elial Wait 1541 

Elias 174 

Elihu Lvman 886 

Elijah.: 100 

Elisha* 169 



INDEX 



475 



HINSDALE NO. 

Elisha« 173 

Elisha » 382 

Elisha ' 404 

Elisha ' 606 

Elisha J 916 

Eliza ' 824 

Eliza « 1150 

Eliza Ann 596 

Elizabeth ^ 2 

Elizabeth ^ 14 

Elizabeth ^ 30 

Elizabeth^ 46 

Elizabeth * 97 

Elizabeth 5 126 

Elizabeth « 137 

Elizabeth" 219 

Ehzabeth « 322 

Elizabeth ' 440 

Elizabeth ' 539 

Elizabeth ' 578 

Elizabeth ' 855 

Ehzabeth ' 867 

Elizabeth « 1499 

Elizabeth « 1539 

Elizabeth Aarona 1706 

Elizabeth Christophers ' 481 

Elizabeth Christophers » 1621 

Elizabeth Wing ' 493 

Ehzabeth Wmg » 1008 

Elizur 179 

Elizur Brace 427 

Ellen Ameha 1494 

Ellen Asenath 918 

Ellen Clarlnda 1581 

Ellen Devereux 1623 

Ellen Edgerton 635 

Ellen Elizabeth 1482 

Ellen Louchelle 2077 

Ellen Roselle 1345 

Elvira 833 

Emelme 622 

Emeline Jeannette 1175 

Emerson M 1463 

Emerson Wright 1463 

Emily ' 445 

Emily ' 879 

Emily* 1552 

Emily Seymour 562 

Epapliras 238 

Ephraim 9 

Erastus 189 

Esther 233 

Ethel wynde Mareella 1635 

Ethelyn Marguerite 1531 

Eugene A 943 

Eunice Levyna 861 

Experience ^ 7 

Experience ^ 33 

Ezra ^ 86 

Ezra" 182 

Ezra M 458 



HINSDALE NO. 

Ezra Sherman 437 

Fanny « 366 

Fanny ' 887 

Fanny Isabelle 1567 

Fanny Pomeroy 472 

Farozina 835 

Farozina Elizabeth 1495 

Fidelia ' 900 

Fidelia « 907 

Florence Gardner 1727 

Florence Harriet 2098 

Florence La\d]la 1535 

Frances Broadfoot 996 

Francis 1500 

Frank 1745 

Frank Corwin 1612 

Frank Dan 1589 

Frank E 1459 

Frank Gilbert 1007 

Frank Lewis 1351 

Frank Webster 1003 

Franklin William 494 

Fred 1460 

Fred Hibbard 1199 

Frederick Dudley 1350 

Frederick Winslow 1118 

Frederika 1605 

Gamaliel 5 

Genevieve * 1356 

Genevieve » 2004 

Genevieve Delia 744 

Genevieve Sarah 1342 

George = 89 

George" 197 

George « 304 

George ' 409 

George ' 474 

George ' 866 

George «■ 1149 

George * 1200 

George Aaron ' 742 

George Aaron * 1357 

George Arthur 934 

George Clark 878 

George D 2147 

George Dewey 947 

George E 1523 

George G 1465 

George Hooker 1006 

George Horace 2095 

George Jay 1536 

George L 2167 

George N 1569 

George Sheldon 439 

George Spencer ' 592 

George Spencer ' 1733 

George W.« 963 

George AV.8 1566 

George William ' 865 



476 



INDEX 



HINSDALE NO. 

George William « 1346 

Geraldine Hutchinson 630 

Gertrude 1527 

Gideon Stebbins 881 

Giles Seymour 301 

Gilman 412 

Glenn 2099 

Grace* 1743 

Grace « 1800 

Grace Webster ^ 999 

Grace Webster « 1004 

Guy 1001 

Hannah 5 83 

Hannah 5 167 

Hannah * 170 

Hannah* 184 

Hannah ' 250 

Hannah « 252 

Hannah « 378 

Hannah ' 627 

Hannah Bulkley 430 

Hannah C 803 

Hannah Jeannette 629 

Harriet ' 540 

Harriet ' 544 

Harriet ^ 822 

Harriet Amelia 1039 

Harriet Ann 483 

Harriet Hull 422 

Harriet Maria 1090 

Harriette Maria 988 

Harry 414 

HattieE 1572 

Helen ' 870 

Helen » 1801 

Helen Beatrice 1600 

Helen Blair 1712 

Helen Holmes 2181 

Helen M 1138 

Henrietta 1466 

Henrietta Sperry 961 

Henry « 273 

Henry ' 542 

Henry ' 585 

Henry 8 1148 

Henry Butler ' 574 

HenrV Butler » 1115 

Henry Clark 1497 

Henry Corse 2151 

Henry David 1479 

Henry Dean 598 

Henry Kerr 1 198 

Henry Mitchell 1348 

Henry Myron 768 

Henry Vaughan 1607 

Henry Walbridge 633 

Herman ' 403 

Herman * 904 

Herman * 911 

Hezekiah 106 



HINSDALE NO. 

Hiram 256 

Hiram S 1458 

Horace 402 

Horace Graham ' 580 

Horace Graham * 1119 

Horace Seymour 243 

Horace W 1575 

Horatio 210 

Hosea 231 

Hosmer 431 

Howard Kav 2103 

Huldah ^ ..'. 134 

Huldah 6 188 

Ida M 1560 

Ida Sarah 1483 

IlaM 2217 

Ira » 326 

Ira ' 841 

Ira« 1505 

Ira Cassius 1534 

Ira Chauncey 2101 

Irwin S 936 

Isaac ^ 15 

Isaac * 59 

Isaac ^ 117 

Isaac " 191 

Isaac Orsanus 467 

Isabella Courtenay 1726 

Jacob ^ 44 

Jacob 5 82 

Jacob 5 129 

Jacob « 172 

Jacob ' 398 

Jacob » 930 

James ^ 107 

James « 205 

James Crane 1086 

James Henry ' 495 

James Henry * 1147 

James Henry ' 1707 

James Henry 2nd 1636 

James Tiley ^ 583 

JamesTileyS 1132 

Jane 423 

Jane Crawford 428 

Jane Elizabeth 601 

Jean Graham 1634 

JeanM 2150 

Jeannie Eloise 1599 

Jennie A 1588 

Jennie Holmes 1593 

Jennie Ruth 2305 

Jenny 2097 

Jerome Brigham 1493 

Jerusha 291 

Jessie D 1587 

Joanna Dean 600 

John^ 8 

John 3 23 



INDEX 



477 



HINSDALE NO. 

John 3 24 

John 3 32 

John * 48 

John* 80 

John ^ 96 

John " 102 

John^ 168 

John« 206 

John ^ 545 

John Allen 745 

John Alvord 1048 

JohnT 2149 

John Theodore 482 

John Wells 1489 

John Wetmore ' 995 

John Wetmore " 1622 

Jonas Galusha 619 

Jonathan * 61 

Jonathan • 323 

Joseph* 60 

Joseph 5 120 

Joseph 5 163 

Joseph « 249 

Joseph Bernard 138 

Joseph Nichols 595 

Joseph Weed 746 

Josephine 942 

Josiah Bissell 204 

Josie Maria 1596 

Julia' 541 

JuUa' 576 

Julia" 1736 

JuUa* 1742 

Julia H 884 

Julia Sophia 1558 

JuUus ' 405 

Julius 8 908 

Katherine I^ewis 1127 

Katherine S 488 

Kathryn 1594 

Laurence M 912 

Leman Hubbard 1488 

Lester J 1468 

Levi 207 

Lida 2096 

LiUian* 1532 

LiUian* 1740 

Lillian B 1458 

Lillian May 1728 

Lois 84 

Lopheha 410 

Lorain 411 

Loren 1573 

Loring 989 

Louisa" 296 

Louisa * 921 

Louisa Goodwin 1130 

Louise Graham 1126 

Luanna M 1604 



HINSDALE NO. 

Lucetta 857 

Lucian 1 ] 73 

Lucinda 300 

Lucretia 367 

Lucretia Edgerton 626 

Lucretia Law 591 

Lucy ^ 99 

Lucy ° 127 

Lucy ' 202 

Lucy • 383 

Lucy A 1459 

Lura 198 

Lurana 348 

Luther G 924 

Lydia * 58 

Lydia* 101 

Lydia* 121 

Lydia = 135 

Lydia = 136 

Lydia « 187 

Lydia * 199 

Lyman 1143 

Lyman K 1568 

Lyman R 1738 

Mabel 2179 

Madine 1463 

Madison W 951 

Margaret 1619 

Margaret S 2145 

Maria « 246 

Maria ' 441 

Maria Louise 1124 

Marie Ella 1708 

MariUa 190 

Marion Louise 764 

Marjorie Dowd 2210 

Martha * 43 

Martha* 105 

Martha « 240 

Martha ' 575 

Martha ' 858 

Martha ' 885 

Martha E 1586 

Martm" 186 

Martin' 438 

Martin J 933 

Mary ^ 6 

Mary ^ 15 

Mary ^ 18 

Mary * 47 

Mary * 76 

Mary* 122 

Mary* 159 

Mary » 349 

Mary ' 473 

Mary' 823 

Mary ' 843 

MaryS 909 

MaryS 1120 

Mary 8 1354 



478 



INDEX 



HINSDALE NO. 

Mar>'8 1501 

Mary A 2085 

Mary Ann « 299 

Mary Ann ' 491 

Mary Ann' 632 

Mary Ann' 864 

Mary Ann ' 901 

Mary Caroline 1343 

Mary Cornelia 1131 

Mary E 1570 

Mary Eliza 621 

Marj' Elizabeth ' 419 

Mary Elizabeth « 1047 

Mary Elizabeth » 1555 

Mai-y Jane 738 

Mary Johnston 487 

Mary Josephine 2006 

Mary Livingston 1009 

Mary Louisa 923 

Mary Louise 1582 

Mary 1577 

Mary Pitkin ' 477 

MaryPitkinS 980 

Mary Stebbins 880 

Matilda 949 

MehitabeP 17 

MehitabeP 34 

Mehuman 22 

Melinda Graham 425 

MUdred 1583 

Miles Adams 1486 

MUo 603 

Milton 608 

Milton Hyde 625 

Mira 490 

Miranda 365 

MitcheU 289 

Mitchell W. ' 806 

Mitchell W. 8 1462 

Morris 418 

Moses' 125 

Moses* 274 

Moses" 316 

Moses* 910 

Moses Bemis 830 

Myla 1741 

MyraetteH 828 

Myron « 293 

Myron 780 

Myron Henry 741 

Nancy « 196 

Nancy" 201 

Nancy " 235 

Nancy " 298 

Nancy Hibbard 868 

Nathan Bridge 1554 

Nathan Norval 2144 

Nellie Jane 2306 

Newton H 1458 

Nicol Cooper 1542 



HINSDALE NO. 

Nora Elaine 806 

Norman " 253 

Norman " 302 

Norman ' 807 

Norman * 1 146 

Nonnan Bingham 618 

Norman Dwight 1347 

Norman Galusha 617 

Norman M 1353 

Norman MitcheU 740 

OUve 836 

Olive Dowd 935 

Olive Marana 420 

Oliver Asahel 1496 

Oliver Edwin 2080 

Oliver W 1139 

Olivia 276 

Orsanus Isaac 962 

Orson 802 

Orson Kellogg ' 609 

Orson KeUogg ' 743 

Oscar 800 

Oscar B 1140 

Oscar Howard 1734 

Pamelia 351 

Parmela 837 

Paul Milton 1601 

Perry H 829 

Phebe 200 

PhebeA 1464 

Philara 195 

Philena 436 

Polly" 324 

PoUy ' 435 

Polly ' 831 

Polly Ann 804 

Ray 2175 

Ray W 1533 

Rebecca * 158 

Rebecca » 358 

Rhea 2218 

Rhoda"* 131 

Rhoda" 176 

Rhoda Harmon 615 

Richard L 1137 

Richard Law 594 

Robert 1 

Robert Graham ' 579 

Robert Graham * 1113 

Robert. H 931 

Robert HamUton 862 

Robert James 2102 

Roger Charles 1746 

RoldonO 920 

RoUinB 1576 

Rosamond 1574 

Rosamond F 914 

RosweU 185 



INDEX 



479 



HINSDALE NO. 

Roswell Hooker 446 

Roxana 220 

Roy Seymour 2094 

Roy Starr 2078 

Rush Cameron 2001 

SaUie 401 

Sally" 248 

Sally" 320 

Sally^ 444 

Sally Maria 883 

Samuel ^ 4 

Samuel ^ 21 

SamueP 77 

Samuel ■* 79 

Samuel ' 88 

Samuel » 157 

Samuel"..... 350 

Samuel Burritt 1563 

Samuel Dexter ^ 882 

Samuel Dexter » 1553 

Samuel Hibbard 825 

Samuel Johnston ' 485 

Samuel Johnston • 1620 

Samuel Willard 1490 

Sanford Charles 637 

Sarah ^ 13 

Sarah ^ 20 

Sarah * 45 

Sarah ^ 90 

Sarah' 133 

Sarah" 183 

Sarah" 247 

Sarah " 297 

Sarah « 362 

Sarah " 377 

Sarah " 381 

Sarah ' 455 

Sarah « 940 

Sarah 8 1540 

Sarah Elizabeth ' 586 

Sarah Elizabeth « 1478 

Sarah Halsted 1087 

Sarah Jerusha 863 

Sarah McEwen 979 

Sarah Ogden 1116 

Sarah Rebecca 1557 

Sarah T 1129 

Sarah Wetmore 480 

Seymour S 805 

Sherman" 178 

Sherman ' 406 

Sidney E 1462 

Solomon Rockwell 981 

Sophia 295 

Sophia Elizabeth 1492 

Stephen* 85 

Stephen » 87 

Stephen" 192 

Stephen" 255 

Stephen" 325 



HINSDALE NO. 

Stephen' 415 

Stephen ' 827 

Stephen ' 856 

Stephen Bingham 628 

Stephen Chittenden 620 

Stephen Edgerton 624 

Stewart 2176 

Strong 272 

Susan ' 587 

Susan ' 834 

Susan Elizabeth 636 

Sylvester Deering 593 

Thankful 360 

Theodora 1002 

Theodore * 98 

Theodore " 203 

Theodore ' 475 

Theodore ' 486 

Theodore « 997 

Theodore Rockwell 1609 

Theodore Swan 1000 

Timothy Pitkm 478 

Tira 842 

Truman 278 

Tryphenia 434 

Venetia A 926 

Vera 2100 

Vernon 2177 

Vernon C 2038 

Victor 2173 

Violintha 361 

Walter G 1467 

Wheeler 1152 

Whiting 177 

Whiting D 913 

WUbert B 922 

William 6 108 

William s 124 

William" 211 

William" 242 

William' 492 

William' 589 

William Alfred 1151 

William Courtenay 1123 

William E 944 

William Epaphras » 1088 

William Epaphras « 1709 

William Epaphras » 1710 

William Lewis ' 577 

William Lewis » 1718 

WiUiam Moses » 1484 

William Moses » 2074 

William Nelson 459 

William Newcomb 1571 

William Pierce 2146 

William Pool 607 

William Russell 429 

WiUiam W 930 



480 



INDEX 



HINSDALE NO. 

Willian Pierce 2304 

Wilson Heath 1711 

Wolcott ' 432 

Wolcott ' 590 



HINSDALE NO. 

Wyllys 433 

Zadoc' 118 

Zadoc* 119 



FMIILY OF JOHN HINSDALE 

Referred to by numbers 



HINSD,\LE NO. 

Abel 25 

Abram D 27 

Albert L 21 

Alfred L 22 

Alice 20 

Betsey Ann 16 

Charles 23 

Cornelius 6 

Cornelius 17 

Dewitt C 32 



Ella.... 
Eugene . 



26 
31 



Frank R 13 

Frank R 34 

FredW 15 

George W 18 

Harriet 28 

Isadore 30 



HINSDALE NO. 

James 11 

Jennie 14 

Jessie Belle 33 

John 1 

John 2 

Lucretia 19 

Martha 10 



Nehemiah C. 
Norman .... 



Peter B. 
Phoebe . 



3 
4 

5 

7 



Rhoda 8 

Royal E 29 

Samuel M 24 

Sarah 9 

William R 12 

WinfieldE 33 



INDEX II 



NAMES OF OTHER PERSONS 

Referred to by pages. 
Note — An asterick (* ) indicates mention of the name more than once on the page. 



NAME PAGE 

ABLE 

Sarah 143 

ADAMS 

Frances A 198 

Hannah Maria 269, 385 

Nahum 180 

Sarah Isabel 302 

AINSWORTH 

O. C 313 

ALEXANDER 

David 67 

Frances E 270, 388 

ALLATT 

Lelia Cecil 390, 463 

ALLEN 

Caroline Minerva 272 

Eugene W 390 

Frank Lyman 272, 390 

Isaac 150, 272 

Lucy 181 

Phebe 75,90 

Ruel 181 

Samuel 109 

Vincent M 272 

Walter F 390 

ALVORD 

Amanda Malvina 135, 229 

AMADON 

George W 151,273 

Grace 273 

Katherine 273 

ANDREWS 

Agnes Hosmer 227, 347 

Alfred 129,223 

Alfred Burritt 340, 442 

Alfred Herbert 340 

Alfred Hinsdale 224, 341 

AUura 129 

Angevine 226,347 

Ann Eliza 224, 340 

Bertha Matson 344, 444 

Caroline Hart 224, 336 

Cornelius 224, 340 

Edwin Norton.... 129,224,338 



NAME FAOB 

ANDREWS — continued. 

Elijah Hinsdale 129 

Eliza Shipman 224, 337 

Ellen Maria 129 

Ethel Dole 340,443 

Ezekiel 95, 128, 129, 226 

Frances Cornelia 284, 395 

Franklin Hall 227 

Franklin Hinsdale 227 

Herbert Cornelius 344, 445 

Herbert Lee 224,344 

Jane Louisa. 129,224,225,228,345 

Julia Ann 224 

Margarette 224,337 

Mary 79 

Mary BidweU 129, 225 

Mary Lincoln 341 

Nathan Hall 227, 348 

Hathan Hosmer 129, 227* 

Roderick Baldwin 227, 347 

Roxana 129, 227 

Sarah 119 

Silas 119* 

Thesta 129, 225 

ANGELL 

Warren H 371 

ARCHIBALD 

Susan Whittier 150, 270 

ARMS 

Hannah 74, 88 

John 113 

Jonathan 88, 109* 

Lucinda 109 

Miranda 109 

Miriam 109 

Rebecca 109 

Sophia 109 

ARNOLD 

Caroline 282 

Caroline TyrreU 282 

Isabel Swartwood 282 

Jared 153,282 

Susan Brainard 282, 393 



481 



482 



INDEX 



NAME PAGE 

ATHERTON 

Sarah 112 

AUSTIN 

Caleb Downer 240 

Elizabeth S 203 

BACHELLER 

Cynthia 148 

Gyrus 149 

Henry 149 

James 101, 148 

Jerusha 148 

Lucretia 147, 148 

Myron 149 

BACKUS 

Hannah 98 

BACON 

Emma 263, 374 

Ira 461 

Mary 108 

William Arthur 461 

William L 382, 461 

BAGGS 

Elizabeth 180,311 

BAKER 

Annie E 416 

Catherine Elizabeth 468 

Charles A 303,405 

Charles H 405 

Charles Nathan 416, 468 

Chester 177,305 

Cora Belle 416 

Eddie H 405 

Emery 468 

Fanny Eveline 416, 468 

George F 378, 458 

George W 458 

Isaac 180 

James M 405 

Lizzie May 416, 469 

Morrison 105 

Nicolas Wells 311,416 

BALDWIN 

Elizabeth Eloise 277, 391 

George 150 

BALLARD 

Anna Margaritta 361 , 456 

Caroline Bridge 361 

Caroline Nelson 361, 457* 

Charlotte Emeline 361 

Charlotte Hawkes 457 

Elizabeth Whitney 243, 362 

James 142, 242 

Margarette Lucretia . . . 243, 363 

Stephen HinsdiU 243, 360 

Susan 457 

William W 361,456 

William Whitney 456 

BARBER 

Adah L 401 

Alice 401 



NAME PAGE 

BARBER — continued. 

Almira 120 

Ann Amelia 300 

Charles Roscoe 401 

Daniel Gott 300, 401 

David 175,300 

Florence Louisa 401 

Hattie May 401 

Hinsdale..' 120 

Jed David 401 

Lillv 401 

Marilla 120 

Mary Ann 175, 301 

Mary Ette 300, 401 

Moses Hinsdale 300, 401 

Norman 90, 120 

SaUy 89, 113 

BARDWELL 

Millicent 113 

Theodosia 179 

BARNARD 

Adeliza 242 

Ann Jeannette 242 

Beriah Green 242 

Elizabeth 107 

Gertrude Eloise 242 

Helen Alcesta 242, 359 

Henrietta 242,359 

Lucretia 242,359 

Lucy Eloise 242 

Nathaniel Pease 140, 242* 

Nellie M 242 

Nina Maud 242,359 

BARNES 

Mr 120 

Asenath 114 

Nancy 128 

BARNETT 

Lizzie 416, 467 

BARSTOW 

Dora 280 

Dorothy 280, 392 

Eleanor 392 

Fanny 280 

Fayette 280,392 

George Frederick 152, 280 

George Mitchell 280 

James Rufus 392 

James Spencer 280, 392 

Jessie 392 

John 392 

John Hinsdale 280 

Lucy 280 

MarietteE 159, 294 

BARTLETT 

Charles L 203 

Charles S 146*, 263 

David Ely 124,203 

Elizabeth 123,201 

Emily 147, 263 

Fanny 203 



INDEX 



483 



NAME PAGE 

BARTLETT — continued. 

Louise 203 

Margaret 203 

Marion 263, 375 

Mary Leeds 203 

Theodore Hinsdale 203 

BARTO 

Charles P 305 

BARTON 

George 196 

Sarah Elizabeth 159, 296 

BATCHELOR 

Elinor C 233 

BATES 

W. 1 312,438 

BATTIS 

Joseph 109 

BAYLISS 

Lucretia 261, 371 

BEACH 

Miles 136 

BEAN 

Mr 472 

BEARDSLEY 

Kate E 272 

BEEBE 

Fidelia 121 

BEMIS 

Farazma 82, 106 

BENHAM 

WiUiam 96 

BENNETT 

Abigail Ann 182, 313 

Charles Hinsdale 405 

David A 304 

James H 304 

James O 176, 304*, 405 

Rhoda Eveline 175 

BENTON 

Miss 261,371 

Amos 75 

Jacob 69 

BERDAN 

H 205 

BERNARD 

Sarah 71,82 

BERRY 

Mary Eliza 224, 339 

BIDWELL 

Ruth 94 

BIERCE 

Hannah Maria 137 

BILLINGS 

Edward 109 

BINGHAM 

Daniel 99 

Hannah 82,98,99 

Jabez 98 

MaryS 146,261 

Thomas 98* 



NAME PAOE 

BIRCH 

Elinor 252,369 

BISSELL 

Anna 91 

Sylvester 181 

BLAKELEY 

Cynthia 105 

BLANEY 

Thomas 203 

BOARDMAN 

Albert William 264, 377 

Alfred 100, 147,264 

Alfred C 145, 259 

AhnaF 260 

Ahnond 146,260 

Alsina 147 

Amanda 146 

ArabeUaE 263,376 

Arvilla 147 

Augusta 259,369 

Byron 146 

CaU-in 264,377 

Carrie E 264 

Charles CarroU 260 

Charles Davis 262, 373 

Charles Knight 373 

Charles W 377 

Charies Wright 147, 264 

Clara M 264,378 

Clarissa 146 

CleoraF 261 

Cornelia M 260,370 

Cyrena 146 

Diantha S 147, 265 

Edwin J 264 

Elisha 100, 145, 146, 261 

EUen Cleora 260, 370 

EmUv H 264, 377 

EmiinaM 261 

Errol 376 

Fidelia 146,262 

FlaviUa 147,263 

Flora 262 

Frank Mead 373 

Frank Seymour 372 

Glen Davis 373 

Grace J 264 

Harriet Maria 145 

Harry Bingham 371 

Harrv Wheeler 373 

Harvev Coleman 259, 369 

Henrv 263,376 

Henry A 260 

Homer Cullen 262, 372 

Homer N 372 

Howard Gilman 372 

Julia Pearl 377 

Laura C 145 

Lillian May 377 

LiUyC 265,378 

liois Knight 373 



484 



INDEX 



NAME PAQB 

BOARDMAN — continued. 

Lorinda 146, 260 

I>ucinda 146 

Lucinda C 264, 377 

Lucy 146,263 

Lydia 146, 262 

Lyman 146 

Mabel Emnia 377 

Marcia Pratt 145, 259 

Maria S 369 

Marie Sophie 369 

Maud J 377 

Milton Elisha 259 

Milton Harvey 145, 259, 369 

Morillo A 261,371 

Myrtle 377 

Norman 146, 261 

Norman Ross 373 

Oscar O 261 

Ozias 82, 99, 100, 145, 147 

Pluma 146 

Ralph 147, 263 

Relief 146 

William 100, 146 

William Asa 147, 264 

William Charles 372 

William Ivnight 262, 372 

William W 264 

BOGARDUS 

Deborah 471* 

BOLLMAN 

Henry L 230 

BOOTH 

M. K 242 

BOSTWICK 

Ann Julia 178, 308 

BOWEN 

Elizabeth 136 

BOWERMAN 

Abigail 328 

BRACE 

Mary 89 

BRADLEY 

Mary F 298 

BRECKENRIDGE 

Julia 140, 240 

BREWER 

Francis 209 

BRIDGE 

Nathan 109 

BRIDGMAN 

Anna Julia 337, 441 

Elisha Burt 224, 336 

Elizabeth Cornwall 336 

Oliver Burt 336 

BRIGGS 

Amy 117 

John S 176, 304 

Polly 99, 139 

Sarah Alice 304 

Susanna 107, 175 



NAME PAOB 

BRITTAN 

Albert Nathan 257 

Eloise 257 

Eloise Ruggles 257 

Flora Janette 257 

Gertrude Electa 257 

Nathan 145,257 

BROADFOOT 

May Marceline 441 

BROOKS 

Albert Ross 415 

Chester 415 

Electa Maria 415, 467 

Eli 311,415 

Elvina 415 

Florence Arvilla 415, 467 

George H 415 

Hiram Wesley 415 

Lizzie 415 

BROWN 

Mr 108 

Annie 357 

Catherine 153, 281 

Ezra 120 

Hannah Whiting 123, 202 

Henry D 248 

J. R 182 

John W 242,359 

Julia Maria 123 

Mary 123 

Robert C 359 

Samuel Robbins 123, 201 

Timothy 91, 122 

Vianna 152 

BROWNELL 

Edward 149 

IvaMay 404,463 

Laura 149 

Philip Taylor 302, 404 

BRYANT 

Edith Ellen 290 

Frank H 291 

Robert EUis 158,290 

BUCKINGHAM 

J 108 

BUIE 

Aaron Hinsdale 160, 296 

Archibald 159 

Augustus Hebra 296 

Charles Tilford 296 

Edwin Hinsdale 296 

John Archibald 296 

John Clayton 296 

Mary Edna 400 

Mary Elizabeth 296 

Robert Buckner 296 

Victor Cunningham 297 

William Jefferson 296, 400 

BULL 

Edward Carrington . . 329, 439* 
Emily AVarren 439 



INDEX 



485 



NAME 

BULL — continued. 
Thomas 



PAGE 



69 



BURCH 

Bemice Lilian 387 

Carrie Helen 387 

Charles Edgar 387 

George Bancroft 387 

George N 269, 386 

Howard Berkley 387 

Newton Dexter 387 



BURGARD 

Emma. 

BURKETT 

Martha . 

BURLISON 

John . . . 



251, 368 

150, 271 

. . . . 199 



BURNAP 

Frances 

BURRITT 

Almira Bidwell 

Betsey Hinsdale 

Elihu 95, 127, 

Elijah Hinsdale 

Emily 

Eunice Wakeman 

George 

Isaac , 

Mary 

William 

BURTIS 

Charles M , 

Helene Gordon 



139, 239 

128, 223 
128, 210 
128, 211 

127, 210 

128, 211 
128, 222 
... 128 
... 128 
128, 211 
128, 211 



352 

352 

BURWELL 

Anna L 267, 384 

Anthony Lee 148, 267 

CharlesLee 267 

Francis J 267 

BUSHNELL 

Mary 143 

BUTLER 

Alfred Huntington 232 

Catherine 136 

Catherine Richards 352 

Catherine Taylor 230 

Charles Fosdick 231 , 351 

Charles Strong 231 

Cortlandt Pahner 231 

Cortlandt Patterson 352 

Daniel 136, 138, 232, 236 

Elizabeth 230, 237, 355 

Elizabeth Ogden 351 

Emma Louise 350, 453 

Emma Ogden 231 

Emma Seymour 352 

Florence Fletcher 352 

Frank 201 

Harriet De Witt 231 

Harriet Elizabeth 351 

Harris Avery 351 

Henry . . .97, 136*, 138, 231, 352 
Henry Hinsdale 232 



NAME PAGE 

BUTLER — continued. 

Henry Lewis 231*, 351* 

Henry Mitchell 350 

Henry Seymour 231, 352 

Horace 136 

Horace Fletcher 352 

Horace Graham 352 

Horace Hinsdale 231*, 351 

Horace Malcohn 230, 350 

James 136 

James Douglas 232 

Jane Douglas 232 

Jane Grant 230 

Jeremiah 136, 230 

Joseph Patterson 352 

Kate Henrietta 350, 453 

Louis Caldwell 351 

Louise Caldwell 231 , 350 

Mabel Gordon 352 

Maria 136 

Maria Ward 231 

Martha Bartsow 231* 

Martha Hinsdale 231 , 351 

Mildred Anna 352 

Miles 136 

Preston 231,351* 

Robert Gordon 352 

Robert Hanson 351 

Samuel 136 

Sarah Fosdick 231 

Susan Good 351 

William Hinsdale 136, 230 

William Patterson 352 

William Seymour 237 

BTINGTON 

Alfred .^son 150, 271 

Alma Amanda 150 

Almeda Amanda 150 

Anson 102, 149 

Archibald 102 

Betsey 102 

Caroline PrisciUa 151,272 

Charles Sperry 273, 390 

Charlotte 270 

Chloe Castle 390 

Clarence N 270 

Cynthia 270 

Edward S 151 

Ermina Emily 271 , 389 

Fred Fletcher 273 

Frederick 151 

George 270 

Glenn A 273 

Henry Harmon 150, 270 

Hiram Fayette 149 

Hiram Hubert 150, 271 

Jennie 272 

Jennie Marsh 284, 395 

John 102, 150 

John Fletcher 151, 272, 273 

John W 151 



486 



INDEX 



NAME PAGE 

BYiNGTON — continued. 

Josephine L 273 

Justus 82, 102, 103 

Kate Grace 273 

Laura 270,389 

Laura Lemina 149 . 

Laura Newton 151 

Lorain 103 

Lucy 102 

Lucy Lav-ina 150, 270 

Luther Lee 151, 273 

Maria Mary 149 

Martha D 151, 273 

Mary Kate 273 

Mile 102 

Minnie Theresa 273 

Myron Monroe 150, 270 

Norman Hinsdale 149 

Orilla 102, 150 

Sarah 151 

Sidney Seymour 150*, 271 

Teresa 151 

Teresa Eusebia 273 

Teresa P 149 

Wesley 103, 151 

William WUberforce 151 

William Worth 150, 270 

BYRN 

Anna Comley 292 

David Henry 292 

Dudley Andrew 292 

Dudley G 158, 292 

Edwin Hinsdale 292 

Louisa Damaris 292 

Susan Emma 292 

Thomas William 292 

CABLES 

Eliza 137 

CADY 

Ellen 196, 327 

CALHOUN 

Alexander A 406 

Nathan C 306, 406 

William E 406 

CALKINS 

Anna M 366 

Anna R 249 

Charles PhUo 144, 248 

Charles Walbridge 249, 366 

Charlotte W 366 

Clara L 249, 367 

Cora 249, 367 

Effie Louise 366,457 

Forrest D 368 

Genevieve A 368 

George Jones 249, 368 

Henry W 249 

JohnC 367 

Marjory 367 

Mary E 249 



NAME PAGE 

CALKINS — continued. 

Richard 367 

Sarah 367 

William H 249,367 

CAMERON 

Isabelle 277 

Maud 285 

CAMP 

Elizabeth 136 

Mila 364 

CAMPBELL 

Wallace 363 

CANAN 

Ella 367 

Lillie 367 

CARLSEN 

Mr.. 404, 464 

Harriett Marie 464 

CARPENTER 

Jemima 312 

CARR 

Lois 120 

CARTER 

Mr 136 

CASWELL 

Mary J 302, 404 

Nelson 175, 302 

CATLIN 

Henry 120 

CAVE 

Mr 173 

Elizabeth 173, 299 

EUa 173 

CHAMBERLAIN 

AbigaU 101, 148 

Eliza 238,356 

Marie 327 

CHAMBERLIN 

CeliaE 269,386 

CHANY 

William Henry 232 

CHALKER 

Mr 119 

CHAPLIN 

Ernest 409 

CHAPMAN 

P. F 273 

CHASE 

Sisson 110 

CHATFIELD 

Charlotte 144,252 

Eliza Jane 144, 249 

CHEESBRO 

Charles 238 

CHESTER 

Dorothy 72, 84 

CHILDS 

Ebenezer 108 

CHITTENDEN 

Erastus 232 

Jared 118, 198 



INDEX 



487 



NAME P\GE 

CHURCHILL 

Walter F 375 

CLAPP 

Addison 176 

Addison H 176, 304 

Edmund 176, 304 

Farozina 176, 304 

Flora 177,305 

Florence 403 

Freddie 403 

Hadassah 107, 176 

Harry 403 

Ida Garrifillia 403 

John 107, 176 

Mary 177 

Melita Elizabeth 176, 304 

Rhoda 177,305 

Sarah Ette 177 

Stephen Hinsdale . ; 403 

Theresa 177,304 

William H. De Lancey 301, 403 

CLARK 

Miss 472 

Abigail 126 

Alexander B 308, 407 

Elizabeth 94,127 

Ehner A 266 

Jane Charity 284, 395 

Laura B 235 

Nathaniel 68 

SaUy 109, 180 

Sarah 117, 195 

Willardl 292 

William 370 

CLARY 

Joseph 108 

CLAYTON 

Evelyn Bell 441 

Mary E 159, 294 

CLEMENT 

Henry Elmer 295 

CLEVELAND 

Emma Leora 264, 377 

COBB 

Mr. 359 

COBURN 

Clara 381, 460 

CODDINGTON 

Frank H 416 

John W 311,416 

Nellie A 416 

W.Nathan 416 

COE 

Jane 135, 228 

COLE 

Celia 262, 373 

Clarissa 128, 211 

Elizabeth 69, 75 

Hulda 147, 264 

COLES 

Ellen M 234 



NAME PAGE 

COLLINS 

Frank H 376 

COMBES 

Alice Almira 248 

Hiram Hinsdill 248, 366 

Lewis Dudley 248, 366 

Mary Eliza 248 

Nellie Emeline 248 

Sylvester 144, 246 

CONANT 

Blanch 383 

Charles Truman 266 

Clark 148, 266 

Emily L 266, 383 

George C 266 

Hannah 99 

Jane Ann 266, 383 

Jesse Lyman 266 

Lucretia S 266 

Marguerite 286, 398 

Maud 383 

WUliam M 266, 383 

CONVERSE 

Jefferson 148, 268 

Jesse Grandey 268, 384 

John Rollin 268, 384 

Juba Howe 268, 384 

Rollin Trask 385 

Sarah Grandey 384 

COOK 

Albert T 229 

Anson 96, 135 

Anson B 229, 349 

Anson Bissell 136 

Catherine B 229, 348 

Cornelia Elvira 230, 349 

Edward Sherman 230, 349 

EUen F 229, 349 

Emma AmeUa 230, 350 

Frederick Monroe 230, 349 

Hannah 82,89,104 

Hattie Loraine 349 

James Hinsdale 135, 229 

Jeffery Frederick 349 

Juliette.. 304 

Laura Hinsdale 136 

Louise Persis 349 

Lydia 149, 269 

Lynds Sherman 349 

Mary Anna 349 

Nellie F 349 

Rhoda Amelia 135, 229 

Sally 136 

Sherman Tuttle 136, 230 

William 75, 89 

COOPER 

Chauncey Hinsdale 308 

Ida Elizabeth 308 

NicoU J 178, 308 

CORBIN 

Nathan D 363 



488 



INDEX 



NAME PAGE 

CORNELL 

Marion Dexter 388 

Marshall Van Norden 388 

William C 269, 388 

CORNWALL 

Elizabeth 74, 88 

Jabez 128, 222 

John 68, 74 

COURTENAY 

Isabella P 138, 237 

CRANDALL 

Irving 238 

CRANE 

Catherine Banks 232, 353 

J. To^Tisend 273 

CRATSER 

Harriet Ann 310 

CRESEY 

Edward K 257 

CRIPPEN 

Eliot M 267, 383 

Mary Emily 384, 462 

CROCKETT 

Luella 330 

CRONKHITE 

Henry H 153, 283 

CROSBY 

Emerson 113 

CROY 

Sylvester 182 

CRUTTENDEN 

Walter Barnes 353 

CUNNINGHAM 

DoraG 366 

Theoda 149 

CURTIS 

Catherine 70, 77 

Charles Sperry 380 

Edwin Rodney 226 

Emily Cornelia 380, 458 

Frances Marion 226 

George Frederic 226 

Helen May 380 

Jessie Fremont 380, 458 

Nathan Selah 226 

Samuel E 129,225 

WUliam H 380* 

Zenas Alanson 265, 380 

CUTHBERT 

Emma Shaw 224, 345 

DANA 

Laura Eunice 176, 304 

DANIELS 

Byron 270 

Leon 377 

Sara 95 

William 270 

Willis 264,377 

DART 

Lucy A 240, 357 



NAME PAQB 

DARROW 

Mary E 127 

DAVIS 

Mr 126 

Alanson 135, 229 

Alga 371 

Annette 229 

Benton 371 

CarolusH 261,371 

Elmer E 299 

Franklin 229 

Gertie 371 

Harry 146, 260, 371 

Julian H 261,371 

Solon 261 

Wight Hinsdale 299 

DAVISSON 

N. B 242,359 

DEAN 

Arza Crane 104, 154 

Celinda 154 

Cleora 154,284 

Cynthia 154 

Ellen Jeannette 284, 394 

Emily 154, 284 

Ernest Hinsdale 284 

Helen A 154, 284 

Lewis Denison 144, 154, 248,283 
Thalia 154,283 

DECON 

James C 231 

DEMPSEY 

Clara Eipelia 279, 391 

Ellen 140, 241 

DENISON 

Mr 238 

DEVENDORP 

Ella 358, 456 

DEVEREUX 

Ellen 206, 332 

DE WITT 

Susan M 231 

DEXTER 

Anne Elizabeth 269, 386 

Beulah Augusta 387 

Charles 269 

Edgar Cook 269 

Edna Morgan 387 

Harriet Louise 269, 388 

Hennan.. 149, 269 

Jane Lydia 387 

Jennie Olivia 269 

Jeremiah 102, 149 

Jeremiah Newton 269, 385 

Leverett 269 

Mary Caroline 269, 387 

Newton Hinsdale 387 

Newton Lord 149, 269 

Olivia Maria 149, 270 

Revere 149 

Stephen Edward 387 



INDEX 



489 



NAME 



PAGE 



DEXTER — continued. 

Stephen Hinsdale 269, 387 

Theodore Frelinghuysen .269, 388 
WQliam Theodore 387 

DICKINSON 

Calvin 113 

Mehitabel 71 

Noadiah 71 

Obadiah 66,71 

Sarah 71 

DINSMORE 

Maud 351 

DOLPH 

Elizabeth 182, 313 

DONNELLY 

Miss 381 

DORMAN 

Cornelia Catherine 230, 350 

DOUD 

Olive 118 

DOUGHERTY 

Anna B 377 

Arthur P 377 

Cornelius 377 

George 264,377 

DOUGLAS 

Jane 136, 232 

DOWD 

Amy 121, 200 

Clara 353,455 

Jacob 74, 89 

DRAKE 

Lucy 116, 181 

Lydia 70 

DREW 

Emma 381, 460 

DUNNING 

James 176, 304 

Zebediah Jr 177 

DUQUID 

Harriet Eliza 402 

Henry Lyman 300, 402 

Henry WeUs 402 

Mary Evelyn 402 

DWT^GHT 

Elijah. 110, 11 

Gamaliel 11 

John 11 

Josiah 11 

Leonard 

Lyman 

Marilda Pratt 300, 

Martha 

Pliny 

Susanna D 



1 
1 
402 
1 
1 
1 

DYER 

Harold 404 

LeRoy M 302,404 

DYKE 

Martha J 241, 359 



NAME PAGE 

EARL 

Addie 374 

Amanda 263 

Bertha 375 

Bertie 374 

Charles 374 

Clarence 374 

George 374 

Harry 374 

Hiram 146, 262 

Hiram A 263,375 

Lucinda 263, 375 

Mary 263,374 

Olive A 263,375 

Vernon 263 

William 263, 374 

EDDY 

Lizzie Elvira 240 

EDGERTON 

Adeline 141 

Caroline A 141 

Daniel Warner 141 

Hannah 99, 141 

Lydia 141 

Mary 141 

EDWARDS 

Perry 234 

ELDREDGE 

Mary 106, 174 

ELLIS 

Jennie 303, 405 

ELMORE 

Cora E 307, 406 

ELTON 

WiUiam 121 

ELY 

Elizabeth 72 

Richard 83 

EMERSON 

AbigaU 240,358 

EMMONS 

Sylvester 93 

ENGELHARD 

EUen Devereux 440 

John Cotton 333, 440 

Joseph Adolphus 440 

ENNES 

Arthur 469 

Oscar 469 

Vina 469 

Walter 416,469 

EYLES 

Clarinda Elvira 116, 183 

FABRIQUE 

Albert Dudley 294 

Allen Hinsdale 158 

Andrew Hinsdale 159, 293 

Cora Jane 294 

Debora Louisa 159 

Edwin Holcomb 293 



490 



INDEX 



NAME PAGE 

FABRiQUE — continued. 

EmUy Lucinda 152, 158, 278, 292 

Emma Louise 294 

Harvev Hinsdale 294 

Henry" Lews. .104, 158, 159, 293 

Henry Louis 294 

Lucia Adeline 159 

Lucy Agnes 294 

Mabel Alice 293 

Marian liUCV 293 

Martha Lee'. 293 

Mary Ann 158, 291 

Mvron Dudley 159, 293 

Nancy Maria 159, 292 

Nannie Louise 294 

Schuyler S 159 

William Alexander 159, 294 

FAIRBANKS 

Dan 175, 301 

Eveline Hinsdale 302 

Francis Bacon 353, 454 

Harriet Elizabeth 454 

FARGO 

AnnaL 463 

Dorothy M 463 

Eugene H 384, 462 

Illma 463 

Leon King 463 

FARNIJM 

Thankful 89 

FARR 

Joel 101 

FARRAND 

Rebecca 101 

FARRINGTON 

Lydia 262, 374 

FARROW 

Nathaniel 112 

FAY 

Martin Kidder 307 

FENLING 

Laura 354 

FERRIS 

Edric 267 

Priscilla 150 

FIDLER 

Maiy 137, 234 

FIELD 

Aaron 83 

FINERTY 

Lizzie 376 

FINNEY 

Agnes Louise 399 

Barton Hinsdill 296 

Henry Lester Starks . . . 294, 399 

Jennie Louise 295 

Lafayette Hinsdill 294, 399 

Mariette Esther 399 

Mary Barton 296 

Mary Louise 159 



NAME PAGE 

FINNEY — continued. 

Mvron 104, 159 

Myron Hinsdill 159, 296 

Norman Johnson 159 

Orson Ovette 159, 295 

Sarah Jane 159, 295 

Solon Hinsdill 159, 294 

Solon Lester 399 

FISII 

Edward Fowler 118, 197 

Emma 147, 264 

FISKE 

Emma R 227, 347 

Howard 348 

WUbur D 227, 348 

FITCH 

Lucy J 206, 382 

FOOT 

Fannie 272, 390 

FORD 

Charles 330, 439 

Hinsdale 439 

FOSTER 

Mr 472 

FOWLER 

Seymour R 200 

FOX 

Charles 278, 398 

FRARY 

Amos 83 

Electa 108, 179 

Elizabeth 108 

Eunice 83, 108 

Lucv 108 

Meliitabel 108 

Nathan 83, 107, 108 

Nathaniel 71, 83 

Obadiah 83 

Polina 108 

Rebecca 108 

Timothy 107 

Tirza..". 108 

FREXai 

Charles S 390 

William 389 

FREY 

Minnie 229, 349 

FRISBIF, 

Emilia 90, 121 

Isaac 120 

Tryphenia 119 

rUSTON 

Victoria 296, 400 

GAGE 

David 79 

Fred 273 

GAHR 

Douglas Hutchins 469 

Frederick W 454, 469 

Lloyd Frederick 469 



INDEX 



491 



NAME PAGE 

GAINES 

Anna 382 

GAI.BRITT 

Mary 375,458 

GALUSHA 

Arthur Jonas 259 

Ellen Hisdale 259, 369 

Eloise Electa 145, 257 

Jonas, Jr 99, 145 

Joseph Hinsdale 145, 257 

Lilla Augusta 257 

I/izzie Livingston 257 

Mary 140 

Orson T^ingham .145, 152, 258, 274 
Walter Jonas 257 

GARDNER 

D. Edson 174 

Edwin W 174 

Helen M 174 

IvaMay 383 

John W 266, 383 

Louisa A 174 

Maggie A 174 

Minnie Chase 237, 356 

Thomas 105, 174 

Truman G 174 

GEORGE 

Grace G 375 

Josiah A 263,375 

Lydia Ann 261 

Nettie B 375 

GERROULD 

Garret 272 

GIBBES 

Robert Waller 443 

GILBERT 

Ada 177,307 

Alice May 375 

Edwin D 263,375 

Mary Livingston 126, 210 

GILLETTE 

Harry M 462 

Lola Dorothy 462 

Samuel M 384,462 

GILLIS 

Mattie A 234 

GILMORE 

Kelsey 110 

GITTINGS 

John 139 

GOBLE 

Elizabeth H 233, 353 

Jabez G 136, 233 

L. Spencer 233 

William Pierson 233 

GOFP 

I. C 292,398 

GOOD 

Isabella E 231,351 

GOODALE 

Jemima 146, 200 



NAME PAGE 

GOODRICH 

Huldah 128 

GOODWIN 

Christiana 233, 353 

Louisa 238 

GORDON 

Anna F 231, 351 

GRAHAM 

Lucina Campbell 137 

Mary Porteous 209, 334 

GRANDEY 

Achsah 148, 267 

Anna 148, 266 

Bertha 460 

Charles Henry 266, 382 

Charles M 381, 460 

Chloe 101, 148 

Cornelia 266, 381 

Edmund 82, 100 

Edson 148 

Electa 148 

Ellen 266, 382 

Elijah 101, 148 

Elizabeth 101, 148 

Emily 266 

Emma Adelle 382 

Enos 148 

Flora F 381 

Freds 381 

George Washington 

148, 267,268 

Harriet 266, 381 

Howard Lyman 460 

Jane Lucretia 148, 268 

Jesse 101, 147 

Jesse Lvman 148, 266, 381 

Jesse Wentworth 268 

Joel Hinsdale 148 

Luther 101 

Lydia 101, 148 

Lyman 101 

Maria TiOuisa 265, 380 

Mary G 382 

Marv Hinsdale 265, 380 

Minnie A 382, 460 

Nancy 148 

Nathan 148 

Norman • 148 

PoUy 101 

Rachel 101 

Rena Julia 382 

Samantha 148, 266 

Sarah 148, 268 

StUhnan 148 

Trrnnan 148, 265 

Truman B 382 

Truman Wilham 382 

William Myrick 266, 381 

WillnaM 382,461 

GRANT 

Alice 196 



492 



INDEX 



NAME PAGE 

GRAVES 

Electa 110, 181 

GREEN 

AlfarettaM 393 

JohnM 417 

GREENFIELD 

Benjamin Harrison 467 

Charles 415,467 

Cornelia May 467 

Nellie 467 

Zal 467 

GRINNELL 

Ethel Morton 414 

Mary Lucretia 414 

Richard B 414 

William F 310,414 

William Morton 414, 464 

GRISWOLD 

Phebe A 173,298 

GUANELLA. 

.\nna 416, 468 

GTLES 

George R 229,348 

George Ralph 348 

Robert Ross 348 

HADDOCK 

Grace Webster 125, 207 

HAIT 

George W 201 

HAI.E 

Harriet Emma 231, 351 

HALFORD 

NeUie 376 

HALL 

Catherine Savage 127 

Charles 126,210 

Elizabeth 70, 79 

Isaac 70 

John 70 

Mercv 70 

M. Louise 160, 297 

P. B 182 

Samuel 64, 70,80 

Sarah 70 

Thomas 70, 80 

HALLOCK 

Leavitt 231 

HALSET 

Emily Seymour 354 , 455 

Francis Spencer 354 

Mary Ailing 354 

Spencer Goble 354 

Stephen A 233,353 

HAMILTON 

EUa 302, 404 

Levyna 177 

HAMLIN 

Harriet Ann 178, 307 

HAMMOND 

Sarah 395 



NAME PAGE 

HANKS 

Eliza Inslee 176,302 

HARDEN 

Miss or Mrs 137 

HARDING 

Chase 290 

HARDY 

George P 374,458 

Harry 458 

HARMON 

Rhoda 140 

HARRIS 

Carrol E 375,458 

Eari 458 

EllaMav 374,457 

Elmer E 374 

Elmer J 374 

Joseph 205,331 

Mary Matthews 331 

Samuel 396 

Selah Matthews 331 

Seym.our 263,374 

HART 

Almira 96, 132 

Betsey 96 

Caroline Bird 223 

Emma 96, 130 

Huldah 96 

James 95 

John 95 

Lydia 96, 130 

Mary 95 

Nancy 96, 130 

Samuel 95 

Theodore 95 

HARTPENCE 

Alanson 310, 414 

Alanson Morton 415 

Lucy Morton 415, 465 

Martha EUa 415 

Mary Lucretia 415, 465 

HARVEY 

Myrtle 384,463 

HASKELL 

Alice 197 

Augustus Porter 118, 196 

Hiram W 118, 197 

HASKINS 

Sophia 145, 259 

HASTINGS 

J. M 231 

Josephine 410, 464 

HATCH 

Betsey V 105,173 

Dixie 461 

Frederick Winslow 235 

George W 382, 461 

Mary Ann 235 

HATHAWAY 

Milo 357 

Warner 240,357 



INDEX 



493 



NAME PAGE 

HAVEN 

Frank H 306 

Joel 177,306 

Nora 306 

Stella 306 

HAWKINS 

Mr 110 

HAWKS 

Eleazer 112 

Mary 62, 67 

HAYDEN 

Charlotte Elizabeth.. . . 239, 356 

Harris Haskell 239 

Samuel Strong 139, 239 

HAYES 

George 177 

HAYWARD 

Experience 71 

Thomas 64, 71 

HAZEN 

Burton, J 370 

Clarence 370 

Harriet 260 

Horace 145, 259 

Maynard 370 

Nettie 370 

Oscar C 260, 370 

HAZLEY 

Mr 149 

HEAD 

Mary EUa 351, 454 

HEALEY 

Ebenezer 106 

HEBRA 

Virginia Caroline 160, 296 

HEDDLESTON 

Anna E 127 

HEDGES 

Mary Teresa 248, 366 

HENRIQUESEN 

Addie :.262, 372 

HENRY 

Persis Fisk 140, 241 

HERKNER 

Elizabeth 367 

Joseph C 249, 367 

Joseph P 367 

Katrina 367 

HEWES 

Alice D 379 

Alvira 265, 379 

Daniel E 265, 378 

EvaLydia 379 

Minnie E 378, 458 

HIBBARD 

David 175 

Rachel 175 

HILDRETH 

Eva J 312 

HILL 

Alfred N 379 



NAME PAGE 

HILL — continued. 

Amos 96 

Charles A 265,379 

Charles W 379 

Florence M 379 

Frederick A 379 

Irwin H 379 

Lottie D 379 

Mary 334 

Sarah 70 

Stafford B 379 

HILLS 

Annie Louise 347 

Grace Eugenia 347 

Lester Shelton 226, 347 

Lola Angevine 347 

Maud Lester 347 

HISEY 

Henry Fabrique 292 

Jacob 159, 292 

Louisa Hinsdale 292, 398 

Mary Emma 292, 398 

William NeweU 292, 399 

HITCHCOCK 

Lois 116, 181 

HOBSON 

Mr 205 

HOLBROOK 

Arthur Andrews 445 

Arthur Tenney 344, 444 

HOLCOMB 

David 101 

Elizabeth 114 

JaneE 159, 293 

Mary 145, 259 

HOLLAND 

Clara 205, 331 

HOLMES 

Jennie 199,328 

HOLT 

Alice Angle 364 

Angle . 364 

Bessie Louise 364 

Carol 364 

Henry Sevmour 364 

Horace Gaylprd 246, 364 

Jeannette Hinsdill 364 

Marion 364 

HOOSE 

Rebecca 104, 173 

HOPKINS 

Agnes 200 

Andrew Bennett 121 . 200 

Augusta 120 

Benajah 90, 120 

Edith C 299 

Ellen 200 

Emeline 120 

Emily 121, 200 

Esther 120 

Henry Joseph 121, 200 



494 



INDEX 



NAME PAQB 

HOPKINS — continued. 

Huldah Jeannette 121 

Joseph 121 

Julia 120 

Martin Hinsdale 121 

MarA'in 120 

Mary 200 

Sarah 75, 90, 200 

Sarah Maria 121, 200 

Theodore E 299 

HOSFORD 

Catherine Carlton 281 

Cyrus Pringle 393 

Delia Lorain 153 

Earl Frederick 393 

Frederick Hinsdale... . 281, 392 

Genevieve Caroline 281 

Jane Fmney 281, 393 

Marian Aurelia 281 

Myron Hinsdale 153, 280 

Orin 104, 153 

Phebe Stone 392 

HOTCHKISS 

John W 121, 201 

HOUSEHOLDER 

Bertha M 406 

Flora B 406 

Lewis B 306, 406 

HOUSER 

Etta 416 

HOUTON 

Cora 338 

HOWARD 

Ehiora F 305 

Phebe A 305 

Sanders N 305 

Sarah E 305 

WiUiam B 177.305 

HOWE 

Charlotte E 138, 237 

Estes 110 

James Henry 455 

William Torrey 355, 455 

HOWELL 

Catherine 137 

HOWLAND 

Henry C 300 

HUBBARD 

Asg_ jjg 

George Wiilard.*. '.'.'.'....... 127 

HUBBELL 

Aaron Lewis 142, 243 

Albert Conklm 244 

Catherine Jeannette 244 

Robert Lewis 244 

HUFFMAN 

Milton S 240 

HUGGINS 

Sophia 327 

HUGHES 

Emma 301 



NAME PAGE 

HULL 

Betsey M 118 

Charlotte Elinor 356 

Ernest H 356 

Henry H 239,356 

Henry Hayden 356 

Robert Sedgwick 356 

HUMPHREY 

Clara 232 

HUNT 

Charles Clark 359 

Elizabeth 83 

HUNTINGTON 

Eleazer 98 

HURLBURT 

Abigail 105, 174 

Arthur Dean 283, 393* 

Bethuel 94 

Elizabeth 105 

Ellen Frances 173 

George 283 

Harley 105 

Heman 105 

Henry Lewis 283 

Henry Ward 394 

Jacob Hinsdale 105, 173 

Jeremiah 82, 105 

Lucy 105, 174 

Margaret 70, 80 

Medad H 154, 283 

Philomela 96 

HURLBUT 

— See Hurlburt 

HUTCHINS 

Ailine Webster 469 

Atala Mae 454, 469 

Emma 263,375 

Ethel Lavina 469 

George F 453 

Henry Walter 454, 469 

Isabella Henrietta 454 

HYDE 

Elisha Anson 105, 174 

Milton Calvin 174 

JACKSON 

Julia Merritt 204, 330 

JACOBSON 

Emma F 262, 372 

JANES 

Israel Davenport 118, 196 

Samuel 66, 73 

JAQUA 

Cornelia Emeline 230 

JEWETT 

Mary French 155, 287 

JOHNSON 

Hannah 118 

Jennie 408 

Jennie E 200,328 

Laura M 153, 281 



INDEX 



495 



NAME PAGE 

JOHNSON — continued. 

Mehitabel 62, 64 

Sylvanus Talbert 300 

JOHNSTON 

Harriet 125 

JONES 

George F 144, 251 

Hannah 119, 199 

JTJDD 

Anna 194 

John 298 

Marilla 194 

Rhoda 75, 90 

JUDSON 

Jennie Finney 295 

Mary Effie 295 

Robert F 159, 295 

KEASBY 

EUa 280, 392 

David B 378 

Roy 378 

William Asa 378 

William B 264, 378 

KEIPER 

Elizabeth 463 

Frank 390, 463 

Katherme 463 

KELLOGG 

Anna 72, 84 

Elizabeth 71,81 

EmUy 104, 154 

Joseph 72 

Martin 66, 72,73,84 

KELSO 

Mary 286, 397 

KENDALL 

Bessie Delano 347, 453 

KENT 

Bertha M 381 

Bruce Park 459 

Burton 381, 459 

Cynthia E 381, 459 

Ellen Jane 152, 274 

Elw>'n 381,459 

Emily C 381 

Enoch J 266,381 

Harry Tuttle 459 

Howard Loyal 459 

Loyal 265, 380 

Lyman G 381 

Murray Grandey 459 

Nyle E 460 

Prudy E 381, 460 

Rollin J 381, 459 

Ross Burton 459 

Roy E 460 

Russell 459 

Truman G 381, 459 

KENTON 

Laura 458, 470 



NAME PAOB 

KERR 

Harry G 387 

KETCHUM 

Alonzo P 121 

KILBURN 

Henry 238 

KIMBALL 

Caroline 205 

Cora 375 

Elijah H 125*, 205* 

Elizabeth C 205 

Fannie 205 

Lillie 375 

Lucy 205,331,411 

Mary 205 

Mattie 375 

Samuel 263, 375 

KING 

Charles 376 

Charles Lee 384, 462 

Eddie T 384, 463 

Florence R 462 

George H 462 

Har^^ey J 463 

James Henry 267, 384 

Levi L 264, 376 

Minnie 376 

Nina Eloise 463 

NinaF 384,462 

KINGSLAND 

Adeline 266, 381 

KINLEY 

Martissa L 201, 329 

KINNET 

Susan 195 

KINSELE 

Miss 472 

KINSEY 

AdahM 368 

KITTERAGE 

William 108 

KLUG 

Gussie 416, 468 

KNAPP 

Edgar S 389 

Mary 89, 117 

KNIGHT 

Annie E ■ 270, 389 

Lois B 261 

Sarah M 261 

KROUSE 

]Miss 203 

KRULL 

Christina 299, 400 

LADD 

Helen Kate 284, 396 

Martin B 154, 284 

Robert Anderson 284, 396 

Thalia Eliza 284, 395 



496 



INDEX 



NAME PAGE 

LAMB 

Daniel Butler 356 

George Butler 355 

George W 237,355 

Jay Kav 356 

John Wallace 356 

Robert WiUiam 356 

LAMBERT 

Sarah 262, 374 

LANDON 

Edward H 414 

LARRABEE 

Hart 110 

LASBY 

Charles S 293 

LAY 

Col 205 

LEASE 

Mr 259,369 

Emily 370 

Frederick 370 

Harry 370 

LEAVITT 

Persis Emily 230, 349 

LEE 

John 95, 129* 

Lucy 129 

Marv 129 

William 129 

LEFFINGWELL 

Elizabeth 142, 143 

John 143 

Thomas 143* 

LEONARD 

Daswin 234 

Emma L 299 

Rebecca 88 

LEWIS 

Anna Gordon 352 

Helen A 300, 401 

Henry 390 

Horatio Wesley 352 

LILLY 

Alice Rose 441 

Edmund Jones 334, 441* 

Frances Hinsdale 441 

LINCOLN 

Simeon 96, 133 

LINSLEY 

Bessie Gay 353 

LINTNER 

George Albert 209 

LITTLE 

Lydia 100, 147 

LLOYD 

Mary A 232 

LOGAN 

Joseph 399 

LONG 

L. H 180 



NAME PAGE 

LOOFBOUROW 

John 137 

LOOMIS 

Joseph 70* 

Lydia 64, 70* 

LORD 

Edith 203 

Frederick 203 

Frederick Agustus 202 

John Eliot 203 

John Smith 202 

Robert 202 

Ruth 82, 102 

Samuel Robbins Browii 203 

William Sinclair 202 

LORING 

Susan Maria 125, 205 

LOTTE 

Sally 177 

LOUNSBERRY 

Edward 230 

LOWER 

Sarah J 177, 306 

LUTHER 

Elizabeth Reynolds 277 

LYMAN 

Mr 108 

James 441 

Joseph 83 

Nehemiah 108 

Oliver Bridgman 442 

William 83 

LYNCH 

H. G 399 

LYNDS 

Sue L 230, 349 

LYON 

David C 310 

Emma 286, 397 

LYTTON 

Minnie M 312, 438 

MAC RAE 

Alfred Evelyn Clayton 441 

Cameron Farquhar 334 

Duncan 334 

Elizabeth 334, 441 

Fannie Wetmore 334 

James Cameron 206, 333 

James Christopher 334 

John Donald 334 

Mary Shackleford 334 

Samuel Hinsdale 334, 440 

Theodore Hinsdale 334 

MACY 

Eliza Mitchell 300, 402 

MAINWARING 

Christopher C 138, 238 

Sarah 238 

MANLEY 

Mr 97 



INDEX 



497 



NAME PAGE 

MARSH 

Mary Ann 150, 272 

MARTIN 

Charles 183 

Elizabeth M 364 

Rachel 62, 67 

MATSON 

Ella Cornelia 224, 341 

MATTHEWS 

Charles B 146 

Julie E 155, 286 

Sarah Ann 204, 330 

Selah 125, 204 

MAY 

Edith Grace 403 

Elijah Hinsdale 403 

Franklin A 301, 402 

John Earl 403 

Lockwood R 383, 462 

William H 462 

William Henry 403 

MEANS 

Martha 210, 335 

MERRIAM 

Alma Fidelia 374 

Almond B 373 

Avery A 374 

Bertrand D 262, 373 

Curtis N 146, 262 

Edith Mabel 373 

Ernest V 373 

Lillian May 373 

Merton E 373 

Mildred B 374 

Norman C 262, 374 

Norman P 373 

William 180 

William W 262, 374 

MERRILL 

Albee 382, 461 

Elsie 461 

Marguerite 461 

MERWIN 

James Burtis 224, 337 

MILES 

William, Jr 129, 228 

MILLEN 

Maude 199 

MILLER 

Mr 471 

Chauncey R 378 

Ebenezer N 177, 305 

Esther D 378 

Franklin W 378 

Julia 264, 377 

Juha M 306 

Mary Frances 306, 406 

Matilda 127 

Robert B 265, 378 

MILLS 

Charles Roland 347 



NAME P\GE 

MILLS — continued. 

Harriet Isabel 328 

Herbert Lee 347, 452 

Katherine Lyman 453 

Kendall Andrews 453 

Lyman Allen 225, 345 

MILTON 

Clara 200, 329 

MINOT 

Anna B 410 

Daniel Morton 410 

Electa Morton 410 

Jonas 310,410*, 464 

Lucia Adelia 464 

Mary Electa 464 

Mary Lucretia 410 

MITCHELL 

Lucinda 82, 103 

MIX 

Amanda 127 

MONTAGUE 

Julia 244 

MOON 

Alvin 127 

Roxana 127 

MOORE 

Callie Frederica 363 

Caroline 173, 297 

Henry Ferguson 153 

James Ballard 363 

Malcolm M 243, 363 

Margaret L 363 

Mary lOUen 265, 379 

Matthew C 285 

Maurice 363 

Nellie L 363 

MORGAN 

Charles Hinsdale 440 

Edna Augusta 269, 387 

John Augustus 440 

VesterH 330, 440 

MORRIS 

Catherine Sophia 145, 257 

MORROW 

Florence Chase 328, 439 

MORSE 

Ina 299 

MORTON 

Alice 414 

Daniel Oliver ... 179, 310*, 408* 

De Lene Lucy 409 

Edith Livingston 413 

Electa Frary 310, 410 

Elizabeth Tyler 409 

George Delossi 409 

Helen Stuyvesant 413 

I-ena Kearney 413 

Levi Frank . ." 409 

Levi Parsons .83,205,310,331,411 
Lewis Parsons 413 



498 



INDEX 



NAME PAOE 

MORTON — continued. 

Lucretia Parsons 310, 409 

Marcus Fred 409 

Martha 310,414 

Mary 310,414* 

Mary E 409 

MOSELET 

Alice Bliss 369 

AlvinB 251,368 

Harriet 126 

MOSHER 

Sarah Ann 142,244 

MOSSOP 

Mary Rebeka 352 

MTJNN 

Christopher 112 

Eleanor Ill 

MYGATT 

Henrietta Barbara 136, 230 

MYRICK 

Charles 148,266 

EUen J 382 

PoUy R 148, 265 

Sarah Jane 267, 383 

m'clellan 

Hugh 180 

m'clttskey 

Mary 176,303 

m'cormick 

EUza Helen 308, 407 

m'cracken 

Mary 107, 176 

m'enin 

Miss or Mrs 149 

m'griff 

Harriet J 393 

m'hard 

Ephraim 110 

m'kown 

James H 309,407 

m'millan 

Alexander 177, 306 

Lavina 306 

Sophia 306 

Sophrona 306, 406 

m'nary 

Betsy 119 

m'neil 

Mr 199 

m'pherson 

Aaron C 417 

Charles W 417 

EUaL 417 

George W 311,417 

Jason A 417 

Minnie M 417 

m'quean 

Margaret 286, 396 

naramore 

Mr 109 



NAME PAGB 

NASH 

Julia E 312,417 

Onesimus 109 

NEILL 

AliceC 460 

Dorothy K 460 

Nathaniel 381, 460 

NELSON 

Sarahs 243,360 

NEWCOMB 

Harriet Jemima 181, 313 

NEWELL 

Edwin R 150, 271 

Willard Marsh 271 

Wyllys Norman 271 

NEWHOUSE 

Louisa M 384, 462 

NEWTON 

A. 381,459 

Catherine 150 

Harry L 459 

HoUis K 459 

Ralph A 459 

NICHOLS 

Joanna 99, 139 

NILES 

Mary 260 

NIXON 

Evangeline 240, 357 

NOBLE 

John Hinsdale 348 

Robert Chamberlain 348 

Robert R 229, 348 

Susie Alvord 348 

NOLLEY 

George Thomas 293 

NORRIS 

Minnie 313 

NORTHUP 

William 153, 281 

NORTON 

Albert 129 

Amy 368 

Elias 88, 113 

Ida May 381,460 

J. C 381 

NOYES 

Albert Leigh 260, 370 

Harrv Albert 371 

Sophia Hatch 175, 301 

William 91 

OGDEN 

Sarah 137 

OLCOTT 

Caroline H 206,331 

Harrison BeU 206 

Mills 206 

Theodore 206 

William 125, 206 * 



INDEX 



499 



NAME PAGE 

OSGOOD 

ZeUa 271 

OTIS 

Joseph 110 

OVIATT 

Eliza 116,182 

PALMER 

Arthur Dean 284 

Beatrice 366 

Cassius C 154, 284 

Charles Forrest 366 

Charles M 285,396 

Charles SiU 396 

Constance 285 

Dean 396 

Edwin Shelby 283 

Emma E 285 

George S 285 

Margaret Hinsdill 366 

Mary Lucretia 366 

Nellie Dean 285 

Theodoric Romeyn 153, 283 

Walter Millard 246, 366 

Walter Seymour 366 

PARKE 

Miss 472 

PARKER 

Sarah E 129,226 

PARKS 

Beaumont 282, 393 

PARSONS 

Alvan 174 

Benjamin 83, 108, 109 

Calvin 179 

Clarissa 106 

Ebenezer 108 

Electa 179 

Elihu 82, 105, 106 

Esther 106 

Eunice 106, 174, 299 

Hannah 108 

Ira 179 

Jerusha 108 

Justm 83, 108*, 178 

Levi 179, 310 

Levi Morton 179 

Lucretia 179*, 310 

Luther 179 

Mercy 108 

Rebecca 109 

Rhoda 174 

Samuel 72 

Sarah 106 

Silas 109 

Solomon 109 

Stephen 106, 174 

Susan 108 

PARTRIDGE 

Cotton 109 



NAME PAGE 

PATTERSON 

Mr 136 

Harriet A 410 

Maria 352 

PAYNE 

Fairinda Washington 334 

PECK 

Mr 240 

Ann 176,303 

Helen J 303,405 

PERKINS 

B. LeRoy 280 

George Barstow 280 

PETTIBONE 

Frederick W 280, 392 

Genevieve Dorothy 392 

PEXTON 

James 307 

PHELPS 

John 96, 133 

PHILLER 

Sallie 159,293 

PICKETT 

Rodney 129 

PIERCE 

Helen J 311,415 

PINKERTON 

Ella 389 

Henry 389 

Lottie 389 

Myron 270, 389 

PITCHER 

Leman Baker 175, 301 

Mary Eliza 301 

PITKIN 

Temperance 93, 124 

PITMAN 

Benjamin 390, 463 

Charles 277,390 

Elizabeth Grace 390, 463 

Gilbert Allatt 463 

Norman Hinsdale 390 

PLACE 

Susanna 153, 281 

PLUMB 

Arthur W 234 

Charles 137, 234 

Clarissa 94 

David 137, 234 

Eleazer 127 

Elijah 127 

Ellen 234 

Ezra Clark 127 

Genius 234 

George 137, 233*, 234 

Hannah 127 

Harriet Maria 127 

Henry 233 

Horace 137* 

Ichabod 97, 137 

James 137, 233 



500 



INDEX 



KAME PAGE 

PLUMB — continued. 

Jeniiina 127 

John 94, 127 

Josephus 234 

Lewis E 234 

Loretta C 234 

Louisa 127, 234 

Lucv 94 

Luther 127 

Lydia 94 

Martha 137 

Mary 137 

Mary EHza 234 

Mvron Johnson 127 

Nathan J 234 

Nelson WiUiam 127 

Preston B 234, 354 

Samuel 94*, 126*, 127 

Sanford 234 

Sarah 94 

Selden 127 

Seth Gilbert 127 

Sylvester 137 

Thomas T 234 

William 137,234* 

Zenas 137, 234 

Zenas B 234 

PLYMPTON 

Mary Rachel 239 

Mehitabel 62, 68 

POMEROY 

Fannie 93, 124 

John 72 

Quartus 83 

POPE 

Jessie May 383, 462 

William H 266, 383 

PORTER 

Alice 246, 364 

Ann 225 

Bryan 129, 225 

POWERS 

C. A 299 

Edward 238 

PRATT 

Elizabeth Ann 352 

Hannah 100 

Mary 80 

PRICE 

Edith M 158,291 

PRINDLE 

Charles 154, 284 

Ernest Hinsdale 284, 395 

George 272 

George William 284, 395 

Gideon Dean 284, 394 

Guy Clark 395 

Jessie Edna 395 

Leon Dean 395 

Lester Marsh 395 

Lewis Charles 284, 395 



NAME PAGE 

PRINDLE — continued. 

Robert Collyer 395 

PRIOR 

Sarah 270 

PRUSSEL 

Charles 416, 469 

May 469 

Otto 469 

PURPLE 

Ellis 284, 395 

PUTNAM 

Catherine Alice 139, 239 

RACKARD 

Charles 341 

RANDALL 

Sally Mabel 246,365 

RANDOLPH 

Carrie 438 

Le Ella 438 

Thomas 313, 438 

RARABALK 

Gertrude Maitland 387 

Howard Dexter 387 

James Newton 387 

James Palen 269, 387 

Louis Clark 387 

William Dexter 387 

RATTIGAN 

Frances Ortell 408 

REA 

Margaret 127 

William Henry 366, 457 

REDDY 

Elizabeth A 472 

REED 

Charles Waters 177, 305 

Ella Sophia 305 

REEVES 

Fanny 241,358 

RENFRO 

Sarah Jane 284, 394 

RICE 

Ann Gill 291 

Edith Cynthlene 291 

Emeline Judson 158 

Emma S 382 

Gertrude Hoyt 158 

Gilman Smith 291 

Gordon 291 

Henry Hurlbut 291 

Henry Martyn 158 

John 104, 155 

Lydia Ann 158, 290 

Martha Emeline 158 

Mary Elizabeth 158, 289 

Robert Hinsdale 291 

Susan Huntington 158, 290 

Theodore 291 

Theodore Frelinghuysen 158, 291 
William Price 291 



INDEX 



501 



NAME PAGE 

RICH 

Anna Maria 246, 365 

Harvey M 375 

Leslie Harold 310 

Mary Hannah Corinne 310 

Moses 178,309 

Pitt Clifton 310 

RICHARDSON 

Mary 266,383 

RIDER 

Mary 66, 73 

RINGE 

Charlotte White 302, 404 

RISING 

Aaron 69 

James 62, 63*, 69 

John 63, 69* 

Jonathan 69 

Joseph 69 

Josiah 69 

Moses 69 

ROBBINS 

Dorothea Le Baron 467 

Eleanor Hartpence 466 

Francis Fenelon 467 

Francis Le Baron 415, 466 

Helen Morton 466 

Howard Chandler 466 

Laura 264 

Margaret Bradford 466 

Mary Alice 466 

ROBERTS 

Aglora A 382, 461 

ROBINSON 

George W 139 

Herbert Fay 240, 357 

Joanna Hinsdale 240 

Stephen Almon 357 

Stephen F 139, 240 

ROCK 

Julia 266 

ROCKFELLER 

Miss 117 

ROCKWELL 

Bezaleel Beebe 135, 228 

Caroline Rebecca 228 

Elizabeth Hinsdale 228 

Jerusha 125, 203 

John 228 

Julia 228 

Kate Louisa 229 

Lillian 229 

Mary Pitkin 228 

MoUie Clough 232 

ROCKWOOD 

Susannah 66, 73 

ROE 

William E 401 

ROGERS 

Aimee Belle 358 



NAME PAGE 

ROOT 

Charles 197 

Joel 120 

Mary 182 

ROSS 

Albert C 312 

E. H 180,312 

Gideon H 312 

Ida May 262, 373 

John 197 

Prudence 179 

RUDD 

Anna 98 

RXJGER 

Catherine H 199 

RYORS 

Alfred 158, 290 

Earnest Hinsdale 290 

SACKETT 

Grove 229 

SAFFORD 

Anne 410 

Edwin Morton 410 

Henry 410 

Laura Elizabeth 410 

Mary Lucretia 410 

Myron W 310, 409 

SAGE 

Abigail 180 

Hezekiah 197 

Morris H 196 

SANBORN 

Laura 237 

Nettie A 294, 399 

SANDILANDS 

Ida 338, 442 

SANDS 

Ethel 465 

Mahlon Alanson 465 

Mahlon Day 415, 465 

Morton Harcourt 465 

SANFORD 

Anna 142 

SAWYER 

A. J 128, 223 

SCHEIDE 

John Hinsdale 403 

Mary Gertrude 403 

William Taylor 301, 403 

SCHENCK 

Mr 458 

Esther Mary 459 

Gladys 459 

Grace 459 

Herbert 458 

Rollin Jay 458 

Sidney 458 

SCHRINER 

Louise Marie 297, 400 



502 



INDEX 



NAME PAGE 

8COVEL 

Mary L 249,366 

SCOVIL 

Hannah 94, 126 

Lemuel 94 

SCOVILLE 

Alvah 120, 199 

John 199 

SEARS 

Chloe Edna 300 

EUen 300 

F. WiUis 300 

Freeman 174,299 

Jonathan, Jr 174 

Marv 300 

Milton F 300 

Olive 300 

SEBASTIAN 

Josephine Murray 152, 278 

SEER 

Annie 354 

SEVERANCE 

Joseph 72,84 

Katherine 112 

R.N 139 

Thankful 88, 110 

SEYMOUR 

Alice Kathleen 364 

Annie Jeannette 363 

Charles KendaU 246, 365 

Charlotte Emma 365 

Frank Henry 246, 363 

Frank Howard 364 

George HmsdUl 246, 364 

Glenn Edgerton 246, 364 

Hannah 69, 75 

Henry 142, 245, 246, 365 

Hezekiah 128,210 

Jeannette Hinsdill 246, 365 

John Addison 246 

Katherine 364 

Louise 364 

Lucretia Hubbell 246, 364 

Magdalen 79, 96 

Marion F 308,406 

Mary Jeannette 246, 364 

Mildred 365 

MiUard Rich 365 

Nellie 365 

Sarah E 261,371 

SHAFF 

Mary 234 

SHAILER 

CM 472 

SHATTUCK 

Frank 144, 252* 

Henry Sanford 252, 369 

Kate 252 

Robert Sanford 369 

Rosamond C 140, 241 



NAME PAGE 

SHAW 

Elizabeth H 300 

Mason Ill 

SHELDON 

Abner 108 

Ann 83 

Asher 83 

Benjamin 72, 83 

Caleb 83 

Dan 83 

Elisha 72 

Jemima 72, 83 

Jerusha 83 

Josiah 72, 83 

Martha 83 

Mary 72 

Mercy 83 

Phebe 83 

Rachel 72 

Rebecca 72,83, 108 

Ruth 83 

Thomas 66, 71, 72 

WiUiam 83 

SHEPARD 

Abel 101 

Elizabeth 96, 134 

Samuel 101 

Sarah 79 

SHERMAN 

Ahna 158 

SHERWIN 

Eugene A 284, 396 

SHERWOOD 

Lyman 141 

Lyman Hinsdale 141 

SHIPMAN 

Mary Lee 223 

SHOOK 

Bertha Kjiight 389 

Edna Louisa 389 

Edwin Henry 389 

Ella May 389 

Henry G 149, 270 

Herman Hinsdale 270, 389 

Revere Alexander 389 

Revere Dexter 270, 388 

Robert James 389 

SIDELL 

Kate 300 

SILL 

Mary 285,396 

SIMMONS 

Joshua 96, 130 

SIMPSON 

Mary Etta 177, 307 

SKELLENGER 

William De Forest 305 

SKELTON 

Jessie V 352 

■»S SKINNER 

Hannah 69 



INDEX 



503 



NAME PAGE 

SKINNER — continued. 

James 69 

Jason 120 

SLATER 

Aurora J 117, 194 

SLOAN 

Edith Clara 391 

Edwin Hinsdale 391 

Helen Adeline 391 

Norman Hinsdale 391 

Theodore A 277, 391 

Theodore Albert 391 

SMALL 

Hannah M 173 

Leander S 260, 370 

SMEAD 

Amelia 180 

Esther 180 

Harriet 180 

Ira 180 

John 67 

Mebitable 180 

Ozias 110 

Samuel 67 

Sarah 180 

Thomas 110, 180* 

Warren 180 

William 180 

SMEDLEY 

Charles 358,456 

Harold H 456 

SMEED 

Alonzo Cicero 356, 455 

Gertrude May 455 

Henry Grady 455 

Louisa Elnora 455 

SMITH 

Albert H 265,380 

Alfred Andrews 338 

Ann 181 

Anna 147 

Annie L 380 

Arthur Galusha 369 

Carroll E 376 

Chester 181 

Clarence S 376 

Clark 380 

Courtlandt Butler 453 

Edwin A. M 228 

Elijah 202,203 

Ella Marv 338 

EnosM. " 129,227 

Enos Nathan 227 

Everett 228 

Florence E 380 

GlyndonH 376 

Harry S 263,376 

Henry Phelps 203 

Ida Frances 237 

James Merwin 350, 453 

Jane Elizabeth 227 



NAME PAGE 

SMITH — continued. 

Leslie Hawley 369 

Lura Hinsdale 203 

Marshal D 281 

Martha 64. 69 

Martha Louisa 151, 272 

Marv Josephine 203 

Philura 263 

Ralph Walter 442 

Raymond Stone 453 

Sally Maria 194 

Sidney 224,338 

Walter Sidney 338, 442 

Wesley A 380 

Willard J 380 

William Hawley 259, 369 

Yvonne N. Hinsdale 203 

SOMERS 

Bertha Eunice 301, 403 

SOUTHWICK 

Caroline A 234, 354 

SPALDING 

Eliza Jane 385 

Gertnide 385 

Harry C 385 

Henry 148, 269*, 385 

Mary Eva 269, 385 

Maude 385 

Percv 385 

Ruby 385 

Samuel 385 

SPAULDING 

Laura M 259,369 

Loval W 381 

Ward 381 

SPENCER 

Abbie 238 

Abigail 80 

Charles 209 

Delia 238 

John 209 

Norman 96 

Theodore 138, 238 

SPERRY 

Luanna B 121,201 

SPICER 

Edward 116,183 

Elizabeth 183 

SPURR 

Mary L 269,388 

STAFFORD 

Cyrus G 300,401 

Florence Barber 401 

Grace Estelle 401 

Herbert Hinsdale 401 

Mabel Hattie 401 

STAGG 

Edgar Josiah 460 

Elbert L 381,460 

Harold Norton 460 

Jessie ]\Iay 460 



504 



INDEX 



NAME PAGE 

STAGG — continued. 

Josiah M 266,381 

Perlie Edward 460 

William Myrick 460 

STANDISH 

Arthur 376 

Charles 264 

Cornelius 264, 376 

Frank R 376 

Josephine 264, 376 

Lillian May 376 

Nellie 376 

Otis 263 

William W 147,263 

STANFORD 

Jennie 273,390 

STANLEY 

Anne 72, 83 

STAPLES 

Nellie E 349 

Samuel E 229, 349 

STARR 

Harriet A 303, 404 

STEARNS 

Sarah Ann 153, 281 

STEBBINS 

Anna 112 

Clarissa 113 

Consider 113* 

Cvnthia 113 

Erastus 112 

Esther 113 

Experience 113 

Gideon 88 

Hannah 113 

Joseph 108 

Mary 88, 109 

Robert 113 

Rufus 113 

Simeon 88, 112*, 113* 

STEPHENS 

Hannah 107, 177 

STEVENS 

Carl Seymour 365 

Ransom Himiphrey 246, 365 

STEWART 

John Wood 410 

Sarah A 313,438 

STILLMAN 

Lucia Maria 230 

Sarah E 135,229 

STIMPSON 

LillieL 294,399 

STOCKING 

Amos 80 

David 80 

Elizabeth 79 

Joseph 79 

Lois 80 

Sarah 79 

Steven 70,79 



NAME PAGE 

STONE 

Mr 108, 263 

Blinn 298 

Charles Pierce 297, 400 

Clement Albert 400 

Clement Walker 173, 297 

Horatio Hackett 173 

James Andrus Blinn .. . .104, 160 

James Helm 173, 297 

Jennie Elizabeth 281, 392 

Lucile 297 

Lucile Hinsdale 298 

Theodosia Estelle 193, 327 

Webster 298 

STOWELL 

Maria Louise 127 

STREET 

Anna Livingston Read 411 

STRICKLAND 

Anna Corn well 223 

Ellen Louisa 223 

Stephen Lyman 128, 223 

STRONG 

Hezekiah Wright Ill 

Mary 72, 83 

Sarah 82, 101 

SULLIVAN 

Sue Frances 328 

SUMNER 

Maradia 376 

TALBOT 

Caroline Ballard 457 

John Alnutt 361, 457* 

TANNER 

Henry 117 

TAPPAN 

Bessie S 470 

Jacob Arthur 458, 469 

Silas 458 

Silas H 470 

TAYLOR 

Capt 128,211 

James H 285 

TEN BROEKE 

S. E 381 

TERRY 

Abigail 73 

THOMAS 

Byron 242 

Lucy 358,456 

Marshall 417 

Nellie F 246,363 

Rowland 140, 242 

THOMPSON 

Elizabeth B 363 

Guv V 363 

Henry E 243,362 

Hugh Graeme 355 

Hugh Miller 236, 355 

J. Wilfred 249,368 



INDEX 



505 



NAME PAGE 

THOMPSON — continued. 

Mary Weatherbum 355, 455 

Schuyler 363 

Stephen Elmer 363 

Wilfred S 368 

THOMSON 

Sally 234 

THORNTON 

John 370 

THORPE 

Miss 472 

THRALL 

Abby 137, 233 

TILEY 

Sarah 138 

TINKER 

Ernest C 369 

TISDALE 

Edith May 455 

James Trescott 455 

Eobert B 354,455 

TOLHURST 

Mary 354 

TOLLMAN 

Florence Augusta 305 

Harvey 177,305 

Lizzie Sarah 305 

TOMPKINS 

Edna 352 

TOOMBS 

ElbridgeGale 358 

Lyman H 358 

William J 241,358 

TOWN 

Miss 146 

Anna 100, 146 

TOWSLEY 

Nancy M 240, 357 

TRACY 

Chester 140 

Hannah 140 

Helen Hinsdale 140 

Jeannette 140 

Nathaniel 99, 140 

TRASK 

Clara L 268,384 

TREAT 

Elisha 96, 130 

Emily 130 

Lorenzo 130 

Mary 130 

TROWBRIDGE 

Elizabeth 393 

William Hall 281, 393 

TRUAX 

William B 158,289 

TRYON 

Allen Cook 350 

David Washington 230, 350 

Eugene Newton 350 

Frank Sherman 350 



NAME PAGE 

TRYON — ■ continued. 

George Schuyler 350 

George Webster 230, 350 

Lucia Artemisia 350 

TUCKER 

Sarah 232 

TURNER 

Marv E 193,314 

TTJTTLE 

Mari L 352 

TYLER 

Augustus 107 

Elizabeth A 310, 408 

TVltRELL 

Amanda Minerva 153, 282 

Carlos 153,281 

Caroline Celestia 153, 282 

Jane Delia 153, 281 

Lorain 153 

Marion Amanda 159, 295 

Marv Lucinda 153, 283 

OrinF 153,281 

Prosper H 153,281 

Stephen Sanford 104, 153 

UNDERWOOD 

Phebe 175 

VALENTINE 

Esther 121,200 

Maud 352 

VANALSTINE 

Charity 471"^ 

VAN DYKE 

Alfred B 378 

Bvron 265,378 

Charles B 378 

Emma Louise 378 

VAN DUYN 

Emma 354 

VAN ETTEN 

Jane E 443 

VAN HARLINGEN 

Arthur 351,454* 

John Martin 454 

VAUGHN 

Eva 201, 330 

Harriet 416 

Isabel 332 

James . 332 

James Barrett 206, 331 

Louis Mills 332 

Mary M 331 

Percy Olcott 331 

WADAMS 

Mr 119 

WADE 

Martha 118, 196 

WADLEY 

Frederick Hinsdale 440 



506 



INDEX 



NAMK PAGE 

WADLE Y — • continued. 

William H 330, 440 

WALBRIDGFi 

Ebenezer 142 

Fanny 139 

Gustavus 142 

Henry 142 

Roxalany 99, 142* 

Stebbins 139 

WALKER 

Charles Hinsdale 160, 297 

Charles Irish 104, 160 

Charlotte Hinsdale 297 

Mary 238 

WALLING 

Julia T 234 

WARD 

Amanda 194 

Elizabeth Ogden 136, 230 

Merrietta 137, 234 

WAHMUTH 

Marietta 304, 405 

WARREN 

Emilv 329 

Fanhv 268,384 

Lydia 209, 335 

Nancv 329, 439 

Seth William 201, 329 

WARRINER 

Eleanor 107 

Mary 67 

WASSON 

Charles 467 

Dora 467 

Edward 467 

Frank 467 

John 415, 467 

Robert 467 

WATERS 

AdeUneE 300, 401 

Amasa 94 

Elijah 139 

Frederick 139 

WATSON 

Mr 140 

Ann Williams 127, 210 

WEAVER 

Mr 196 

WEBSTER 

Carrie 454, 469 

EmQy 201 

Eunice M 105 

George 200 

James 201 

Jennie 201 

Justus 121, 200 

Margaret Clare 173, 297 

Sarah 121, 200 

WEED 

Dorothy 104, 152 



NAME PAGB 

WEEKS 

Maria A 199 

Samuel 139 

WEISHAUPT 

Minna Hedwig 409 

WELCH 

Charles Manlius 404, 463 

Christine Caswell 464 

Louise M 229 

Philip Hinsdale 464 

WELD 

Anna 67 

Daniel 62, 67* 

John 67 

Marv 67 

Mehitabel 67 

WELLS 

Delos Elijah 300, 402 

Eliza Duquid 402 

Ella Louisa 327 

Emily Mary 402 

Harriet Eliza 300, 402 

Herbert Smith 327 

Isaac N 195, 327 

John Emmet 300, 402 

JohnS 175,300 

Lynford John 402 

Mabel Helene 402 

Marion Lee 402 

Marjorie Jessica 402 

Mary Eliza 402 

Melissa H 261 

Milton Dwight 402 

Sarah 109 

WENTWORTH 

Mary 148, 267 

WETMORE 

Elizabeth Christophers . . 125, 206 

WHEELER 

Diana Albina 140, 241 

Ellen Nora 234 

WHEELOCK 

Mary 101 

WHITE 

Mr 471 

Abigail 75 

Ambrose 151, 272 

Ann 75 

Annas 382,461 

Annie May 355 

Charles E 272 

Elizabeth 75 

Elsie M 382,461 

Frank F 272 

George N 382,461 

John E 272 

Laura H 272 

Laura Small 173 

Martha 75 

Marv 70, 143 

MolIieG 382 



INDEX 



507 



NAME PAGE 

WHITE — continued. 

Nathaniel 69, 75 

Sarah 62, 63, 75 

Walter R 382 

WUliam 266,382 

WUliamN 461 

WHITING 

Ophelia 116, 182 

William F 353 

WHITNEY 

Bessie Butler 350, 454 

Charles Henry 351 

Frances Louise 454 

John Randall 231 , 350, 454 

Louis Butler 351, 454 

Lydia 100, 145 

William Wallace 351 

WHITTEMORE 

NeUieE 280,392 

WHITTLESEY 

Frederick 125, 204 

WICKER 

Caroline Eliza 150, 272 

Clara Lyman 150*, 271 

Emeline 150 

Francis Asbury 150 

Hester Aim 150 

Juliette 150 

Minerva 150 

William F 102, 150 

William Frederick 150 

WIGHT 

Nathaniel 68 

WILBUR 

Jennie 359 

W. L 242,359 

WILCOX 

Clara 415 

Edward P 228 

WILLARD 

Bradley 398 

Dorothy 398 

John..". 96, 130 

Willis B 286, 397 

"mLLIAM 

Jennie 242 

WILLIAMS 

AbigaU 74,85 

Franklin G 461 

Henry K 382,461 

Samuel 72 

Solomon 109 

Warren 128, 211 

WILSON 

David Gregor 308 

WINCHELL 

Sybel 90, 119 

WING 

Adaline 270 

Judith 126 



NAME PAGE 

WINSLOW 

Adelia 149 

WIRICK 

Charles S 242,359 

Helen Pearl 359 

WITHEY 

Adelaide Marion 286 

Charles Shepard 286, 398 

Chester C 397 

Chester Henry 286, 397 

Edward Lyon 397 

Edward William 286, 397 

Eleanor M 286, 397 

Lewis Hinsdale 286, 396 

Margaret 397 

Marion E 397 

Maude 396 

Solomon Lewis 155, 285 

Thurber Conant 398 

WOI-COTT 

Catherine 138 

WOOD 

Alfred 265 

Alfred Boardman 265 

Augusta 265 

Bethia 99 

Edith 380 

Edward C 453 

Fidelia L 265, 378 

Helen 379 

Helen B 379 

Hilda 379 

Irwin W 265,379 

Jessie D 265,380 

Lillian M 376 

Lydia M 265, 379 

Mabel 379 

Marion M 265, 380 

Mary E 379 

Morton M 265, 380 

Sabrma Diantha 265, 378 

Selw>'n Willard 265, 379 

Susan M 312 

Willard 147, 265 

WiUard Selwyn 379 

Winifred 379 

WOODEN 

Dorothy Clarissa 404, 464 

Julia.." 195 

WOODWARD 

Ann 61, 63 

WOODWORTH 

Anna 374 

WORKMAN 

Amaret 181 

WRIGHT 

Lillian 299 

Thomas 140 

YOUNGLOVE 

Joseph 67 



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